When I saw "NO PARKING" painted on the pavement near the curb, I read "NO" upside down as "ON". I thought that was where your car was supposed to be with the engine running, thus being "on". "PARKING" was where you were supposed to park.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- when i was little, i used to think that cars had faces and talked to eachother in the parking lot.— Whitney
- I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- When I was about 4, I thought catfish were supposed to meow. — Élistariel
- I thought you were supposed to take money out of the collection at church.— Wangchuk
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia