You know how highways have turn-around lanes between opposing traffic for emergency vehicles to use? They also almost always have a sign that says "Violators will be prosecuted." Being a little kid, I thought that was the same as "Violators will be executed." It didn't help matters when I asked my dad, "They wouldn't really prosecute them, would they?" And my dad said, "You bet they would!"
A childhood belief about road signs
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
- I thought the “Slippery When Wet” traffic sign was a car that had grown long bendy legs.Anon
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien