[yarddog]

I could read pretty well by the time I was in the second grade. This would have been around 1953.

I would often read signs as we drove. Having learned to sound out words, I would sometimes make some pretty bad pronunciations. My parents and siblings thought it was funny.

[gigster]

I would often read signs as we drove. Me too, I took them too literally, and when I saw a sign that said: Do not Pass, I thought we couldn't pass the sign.