My mother and I used to go driving at night a lot (my father worked the night shift). She liked to go around and play "pretend" with me...like what kind of furniture would we have if we lived in that house? Anyway, this involved driving in many small neighborhoods where it's all Dead Ends and Cul-de-Sacs. Everytime I saw the sign "Dead End," I panicked. I envisioned an end to the road much like the cliffs in the old Wile. E. Coyote cartoons. I always thought "Dead End" meant...hear ya go...over the cliff...this is your dead end.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to believe a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon