Just down the road from our house, there used to be a depot where they made, sold and hired out scaffolding. This company had an advert on the side of the adjacent bridge which carried the railway line over the main road. To allow double decker buses to pass under this bridge, the road dips to a lower level. The advert on this bridge used to read “Sale+hire”, indicating that you could buy or hire scaffolding from this depot. I thought it was an instruction to motorists to “sail higher”, i.e. return to the normal height when you reach the other side of this bridge where the dip in the road level comes to an end.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington— Shayne
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- I used to believe that George Washington died and turned into a bridge.— lara dean
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- 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 believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon