My mum used to always tell me that I should stop at the traffic lights until I saw "the little green man come up". I was busily looking up and down the street for a little green alien type figure to wave me across the road, and of course he never appeared. But not wanting to seem stupid, I never mentioned to my mum that I couldn't see him, and just crossed the road when she did! I think I was about 8 before realising that the little green man actually appeared ON the traffic light!
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- 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
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon