My mum used to call road humps sleeping policemen when I was younger, and so I thought that when policemen were tired they used to burrow under the road for a little nap. I even used to give the ones on my road special waking up calls, and was very angry with them for not waking up
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus
- Pizza deliverymen men are aloud to run red lights such as policemen do.— Ben
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav