I used to think that the road signs that read: "NO SHOULDER" meant you couldn't hang your shoulder out of the car window while driving in the area. It seemed perfectly logical to me.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I used to think that the shoulder blades were actually "back breasts".— Kdees
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.
- When we were younger my sister and I used to think that our shoulder blades were really sprouting wings.— Raven
- I used to beleive that road signs grew out of the ground.— Tiana