re: Do stop signs in parking lots have any legal meaning?

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No. And stop signs with white around them means you don't have to come to a complete stop.

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I don't remember seeing one without a white border.

I thought it was for better visibility.

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Stop signs are stop signs, regardless of whether or not they have a white border. Anything you’ve heard to the contrary is either rumor or a joke someone else is getting a good laugh out of. If an officer pulls you over for running a stop sign, arguing that there was a “white border around the edge so it’s optional” isn’t gonna fly. It’s unclear how rumors like these get started. It’s likely that the whole shtick started as a joke in driver’s ed that someone took a little too seriously, snowballing into a deep-seated myth of the road.

Pro tip: if you see a stop sign, come to a full and complete stop in order to avoid red and blue lights followed by a lovely ticket. For those wondering, optional stop signs do exist — they’re called “Yield” signs.

The real secret, though, is that the word “gullible” isn’t even in the dictionary. Weird, right?

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