When I was little my grandmother told me that the bumps to alert you that a stop is coming were for blind drivers. I took it to be the gospel without questioning, it was only later, when I was 14 and told my older friend about the bumps I began to realize exactly how stupid I sounded.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- i used to believe that if you lie you really will get lie bumps.Anon
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- I was told that if you went to brd with your sox on you would go blind.— Frank L