I used to believe that the yellow street light meant slow down in Georgia and HURRY UP in LA, California. Apparently, i didn't find out that it was just a joke that my mother had told me three years earlier until i was 12!!!
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea
- I used to believe that the yellow sky during a sunset meant that people were peeing a lot.Anon
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen