Sometimes I'd see an arrow-shaped green light, and the ones that pointed upward I thought existed to guide airplanes.
I assumed there was a runway somewhere near, and because I was at this particular intersection with airplane lights, I might get to see an airplane go right over my head at any moment!
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- When I was young whenever I rode on an airplane I always thought we were traveling to another planet. — Dennis Rueda
- --I thought if I swung hard enough in my swing i could possibly reach an airplane
— dusty chenille - I used to belive that an airplane was my mothers car. I don't no why. — Erilld