My brother told me that tarmac was white and that the road layers had to paint it all black before it was ready. This explained why roadworks took so long. I used to try and catch them doing the detail in the middle.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- I used to believe that a long time ago, just like in old pictures, the world was black and white loolAnon
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore