You know those signs that appear 10 meters before the turning? When I was little I thought that you had to turn exactly where the sign was - only there never seemed to be a road!
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 - When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- I used to beleive that road signs grew out of the ground.— Tiana
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia