i used to believe that the yellow road sign for curves ahead was really a warning for a car with tenticles. whenever i saw that sign, always kept my eye out for that car.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "no outlet" sign on roads was a warning to people driving electric cars.— c
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- i used to think that the road sign "dangerous" was actually "dang-er-roos" a kind of bouncy marsupial— owen cash