While stuck in construction traffic, I asked my dad when the construction would end. He said he wouldn't live to see the end of construction.
Not understanding the sarcasm, I thought he was dying. My mother put me straight later that day when I told her Dad was gonna die.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that a traffic jam was wen cars got stuck in jam!Anon
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- I used to belive that there was a god living in every traffic light, controlling the traffic!— Sukhi
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London