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Just remembered two more.
I was sure that the pushbutton at crosswalks counted how many times it was pressed, so that it would know how many people were waiting to cross, and would change the light to "Walk" if there were lots of people. As I got older, I realized that it wouldn't register as multiple people if you pressed it in a regular frequent pattern, so I would then stagger the presses every few seconds to trick it.
After I understood about the sun travelling around the earth, but before I understood about time zones, I thought that each town set the time based on noon being exactly when the sun was at its peak in the sky. This explained why the clock on the bank sign a couple towns over didn't match the time on my watch; that town was a couple of minutes behind my town.
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I can't read your signature. Sorry.
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