When I was young, we'd be sitting at a red light and after a while he'd say 3...2...1 and on 1 the light would turn green. I thought he was using magic, but really he was just counting down from the other light turning red (3 seconds between one light turning red and another turning green)
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- 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 when lightening struck at night, it was turning the world into day for a few seconds. — Kristine
- I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane
- i used to believe the turning signals on cars helped them turn sharp corners.— Julia
- In "God Bless America" I thought it was "With the light from a bulb" instead of "from above."— Carol