When I was little we used to drive by a Dead End sign frequently. I used to think that that was the place you take your dead animals and I could just imagine that at the end of this road there were just piles and piles of dead cats and dogs.
A childhood belief about road signs
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 always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- 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 thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits— lala