I used to believe that the president hired little kids to take their yellow paint and paintbrushes to the road to paint the yellow lines on the road.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- I used to believe that the solid double yellow lines on highways were the motorcycle lane.— jeech
- I thought that kids' pee was yellow and adults' pee was clear.— Aretia
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla