From the time I first learned to read until perhaps the fourth grade I thought if you parked your car illegally it would be blown up, because that's what the sign said:
Vehicles Exploded
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon - My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff