The Children Crossing signs in my town had a silhouette of two children walking over the letters XING. I thought there was an actual word xing you pronounced as "zing".
It meant something like reservation or game preserve.
I thought that til I was about twelve.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that the "ped x-ing" signs meant "pediatrician crossing."— Jessica
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon