When I was little, whenever we seemed to pass a "do not pass" sign, we were near a wooded area. So I always believed that those signs were telling people that they couldn't enter the "forest". And when we passed a sign that said passing was okay, it was alright to enter the "forest".
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the Do Not Pass signs on the roads meant you were'nt aloud to pass the sign. I was 14.Anon
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I used to believe that Canada was a territory of the U.S. and was one big forest.Anon