Traveling with my parents, we became lost. My Dad was looking for a fork in the road, where he would turn. He couldn't find it. Though I thought it odd, I kept looking out my window for a fork (stainless steel) planted in the middle of the asphalt road.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- steel wool comes from steel sheep— tg
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian