road signs

I grew up in South Africa. Road names are marked as R10 or R60 etc. The currency in South Africa is the Rand (note the capital R), so I believed that the R10 or R60 signs I saw along the road, was the amount of the fine you would get if you were speeding on that road.

Natasja

when I was younger (I am still a child as I am only 17 now), I thought that the "do not pass" signs meant you couldn't move past the sign. It always upset me because I thought my parents were breaking the law.
I thought this until I read the drivers manual at age 14.

Marie

When I saw a road sign that said no outlet that it ment the houses there didn't have electrical outlets. I believed this until I was about 11 and mentioned to my grandma how it must suck to live with no electricity when the next street over had it. I felt pretty dumb when she explained it ment the road was a dead end

KittyKat

i used to believe that the road sign "not a thru street" meant that they were still building the road and weren't finished yet.

ratman

Even after drivers education, I really thought the "feeder" rd. was a really long road that you could take from state to state because you saw it in ,uhm state to state.

bstennis

when i was a kid i used to believe that those "speed zone ahead" signs meant that cars were going real fast. so i would look out the window waiting for this "zone" to come up.but traffic seamed to slow down for some odd reason.

tommy

I used to believe that the abbrieviation for crossing (XING) was Chinese and that only Chinese people could read it.

Valerie

I used to believe that the road sign "Slow Children Ahead" meant that there were mentally challenged children living in the neighborhood.

Jayne

I used to think that signs that read "No Outlet" (meaning a dead-end road) meant that the people on that street had no electrical outlets in their homes. I used to feel so bad for all of the people without electricity and wonder why they would live there.

Robin L.

I used to think that people who lived on streets with "NO OUTLET" signs did not have any electricity. I couldn't figure out why anyone would buy those houses.

cheryl h

When I was just starting to read I remember believing the "pass with care" signs said "pass white car"-- I even told my parents to never buy a white car or we'll be passed all the time. They never made the connection.

Anon

i used to think that "caution ice on bridge" signs said "caution ice on berg" you know like iceberg. ya it crack me up too

Anon

I used to believe that when a street had a 'No Outlet' sign, it meant there was no electricity on that street. I used to also believe the signs that said 'Deaf Children at Play' meant that all the children on that block were deaf.

Brianne

It used to really scare me when I would see the falling rocks sign in the mountains. I would be on constant lookout for boulders hurling down the mountain toward our car.

emily

I was almost ten years old before I realized that the "Do Not Pass" signs on highways meant something altogether different. For years, I just assumed that everyone on the road was a terrible scofflaw, a belief reinforced by the way my father always slowed down and tried to be inconspicuous when a police car appeared.

Tom

As a child I would notice the "Road slick when wet signs" (with the wavy lines below the silhouette of the car) and think that it was a warning that this crazy octopus creature could be found on that stretch of road.

Andrew

When I was little driving in the car I would see the "crossover" signs for miles at a time, I always thought it was a really big city whitm like a million billion people that was somewhere sorta to the left of wherever I was

Ickus

Whenever we were out driving we would pass the signs saying " slow children" as they would want you to slow down. I being the kid i was, would eagerly look out the windows for kids moving in slow motion.

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