In the neigborhood where I grew up, there was a dead-end street with a big yellow sign saying "NO OUTLET". I always wondered who would want to live in the houses on this street, if they couldn't plug anything in.
A childhood belief about in the street

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 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 believe that the no outlet signs meant that noone in that section of the street had electricityAnon
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard