When I was about 4, I used to believe that when traveling on a road that said dead end, you would die at the end of the road.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!— Deb