when I was in the second grade, there was no busing if you lived in the city and I used to have to walk about a mile to my home. there was a sign on this one street I used to have to walk on and there was a sign that said "speed meter ahead" I could read but had no clue what a speed meter was but it sounded like something I did not want to see. So I would always take a detour around that street.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There
- I used to think that the gas meter made antsAnon