my mam always said be careful on "The main road" referring to a busy road near our house called Station Road. I thought this was the main road from which all other roads in the whole world began!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian
- I thought a highwayman was just someone who helps pave the road and stuff like that— Nate