I used to think that when the light turned green, everyone started driving at the exact same time - that you didn't wait for the car in front of you to start moving before you started riving. So when I got older and started noticing that we didn't immediately start driving when the light turned green, I got confused...
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I used to believe that you died when you turned 100, the exact second.— Tianne
- If I had bad gas I would sometimes start to run as I farted to escape the smell. It didn't always work.— Sammy
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I would think that every car that either my mom or dad wasnt driving a ghost was drivingAnon