You know how at some stop lights there will be a green arrow and you have to go the direction the arrow is pointing? Well when I was little, I would always worry that when the light turned green, it would be an arrow, and it would make us go a direction we didn't want to go. I didn't realize that there were different lanes for different directions... woops!
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- When I was little, I used to think that whatever direction I was facing was north.Anon