I thought the 'no u-turns'sign meant 'no horses allowed on the road'..
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- i used to think that the road sign "dangerous" was actually "dang-er-roos" a kind of bouncy marsupial— owen cash
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila