I thought that when you crossed the road that you kept your arms in the same position as the green man. The same goes to the red man by standing with your arms to the side of you.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs