when i was about 5, my mom used to tell me to hiss at red lights so that they would hurry up and change to green and she could go. i kept doing that until i was about 12. she never really discouraged it, so i figured it must work. people thought i had tourettes.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I thought that when the lights went out, putting a candle behind the tv would make it work :)— Ricky
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- I used to believe that I could change street lights with my mindAnon
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I could never work out how they used to change the bands over so quickly when i listened to the radio— graham