As a young child I used to believe "Pedestrians" were members of a religious sect that refused to stop for automobiles, so special "pedestrian crossings" were put up to keep them from being run over. Apparently, this was wrong.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- As a child I went to a prodestant church, but I used to tell people that I was a pedestrian.— Megan
- i used to believe that the signs for curvy roads were for snake crossingsAnon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - When I was young I refused to drink well water because I thought it came out of whales.— itodd
- I used to believe "Pedestrians" was a political party like Democrats or Republicans.— August
- I used to think that PEDESTRIAN was a religion— wilsob2700