When I was 3 and just learning about words and reading, I noticed a sign on the road to our house that said "Speed Checked by Radar." I thought it said "Speed Chicken" and I used to love to picture this giant chicken running up and down the highway telling people to slow down.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina