When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- No littering $500 fine
I better litter so I don’t get fined!!Anon - I used to believe that a "No Loitering" sign was "No Littering", inexplicably spelled with a Brooklyn accent.— erin
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I thought that the sign "!" meant: "look at the wonderful landscape"— Giorgos
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen