road signs

When we drove to visit my grandmother we always got on the highway by turning left near a "No U Turn" sign.

I always thought my dad was going to get arrested because I thought it meant "No You Turn," as in "No Turns Here" (apparently I thought the Sopranos wrote all our street signs).

Anon

I can remember driving down the road with my family, when i was very young. I panicked, and asked my dad to turn around quickly, in the car. When he asked why, I stated that the sign on the side of the road said "DO NOT PASS". I thought it meant not to pass the SIGN! :) : ) :)

Nancy

There was a draw bridge we would drive over all the time, and at one end there was a big rotary. So everytime we went over the draw bridge I would see the big "Rotary" sign. I thought for many years "Rotary" was some strange term for "Draw Bridge". I was terrified of draw bridges, so seeing "Rotary" (there are a lot of those here!) just made me panic.

Anon

when i was younger, i used to think the "DO NOT PASS" signs meant you couldn't go past the sign and i always wondered why mom would keep going. i thought she would be pulled over or something. then when she didn't, i just guessed that she got lucky because there weren't any cops around.

urnewbuddee

When i was little we always used to pass this sign in our car. It was a big taco bell sign that said Exit Now! And i thought that you werent allowed to go there it was saying exit now! as your last chance to turn around before the police came after you.

I love Taco Bell.

When I was about 6 I thoght on the the ^ sign when it turned green meant our car was suppose to fly upwards. I thought this for a couple of years until I realized it meant go straight

2 weird

When I was in elementary school, (before I knew the concept of so many feet equaled a mile), I always thought that a mile was the distance between 2 road signs. So, when I figured this out I thought I must be traveling lots of miles, even though I was only going to school.

Michele

I used to believe that the No Passing signs meant that you couldn't pass the sign like into the field or something.

Keegan

When I was little we used to drive by a Dead End sign frequently. I used to think that that was the place you take your dead animals and I could just imagine that at the end of this road there were just piles and piles of dead cats and dogs.

Eva

I used to think that the handicap symbol was just a bunch of lines. I knew that it meant handicap, but I didn't really think about what it was. It wasn't until I was 14 that it clicked, "OH! It's a man in a wheel chair!" I never told anyone about my shame.

Speedy

As a young child, I used to delight myself in the car by reading the street signs and thus proving to my mom that I was in fact the smartest little kid ever. One day, however, I came across a word I had never seen before. I stared at this foreign word for as long as possible before finally asking my mom, "Mommy, why are only pediatricians allowed to cross here?" My mom quickly realized what I meant and corrected me. In reality, the sign said "Pedestrian Crossing." But hey, give me a break. I must have been three or four.

Rachel

When my family would go on car trips I would often notice signs that said "Do Not Pass." I used believe that it was against the law to go past the sign, and that the cops were going to come arrest my father as he would pass numerous ones often at high rates of speed. I would slouch down in my seat and look around nervously waiting to be pulled over and arrested.
I didnt understand how we were never arrested until we were driving one day and I mentioned to my father my fear, that he laughed so hard he had to pull the car over and explain it to me.

Nichole

When my family used to drive to my aunt's house, there would always be this billboard with a pool that I was convinced looked like a shell. with a toothpick that had an olive stuck to it sticking out of the middle. Every time we passed it, I would scream "SHELL!!!" My parents had no idea what I was talking about and one day they took me to a Shell gas station and said "THAT IS A SHELL."

Anon

I never understood the "wrong way" signs on roads. How could they possibly know you were going the wrong way if they didn't know what your destination was?

Alex319

When I was little I found out what an electrical outlet was. SO when I was a little girls every time my mother drove by a street with a sign that said, 'No Outlet' I would cry because I felt bad that the people down that street had no electricy. 'No Outlet'

Matilda