Dad used to have me blow out the red lights. He would tell me when and sure enough - the light would turn green!
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- 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
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon