My friend Nicole told me when she was younger she knew that green meant "go" and red meant "stop"..yellow meant "hurry up and go before the light turns red!"
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I used to believe that the yellow sky during a sunset meant that people were peeing a lot.Anon
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- when I was younger I used to believe that prosecuted meant that you would be killed!— tony