You know the road sign when you are coming up to a junction or croos roads with the main road bigger? I used to think that they were signs for te firefighters showing where they could fill the fire engine up because i thought they looked like those red things you see in films!
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to believe the Do Not Pass signs on the roads meant you were'nt aloud to pass the sign. I was 14.Anon
- I used to beleive that road signs grew out of the ground.— Tiana
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's