When I was 5 or so, I always thought that the light singals would go in any order. I never knew why my mom would slow at a yellow light. I thought if it was yellow the light was trying to make up its mind to turn green or red.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona