When I was 2 or 3 my dad taught me "green means go, red means stop, and yellow means STEP ON IT!!!" For years I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to step on. It finally dawned on me when I was learning to drive that I was supposed to "step on" the gas.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - when i was younger i used to believe that if i step on the lines of the tiles i would die — arouf gangsta
- I used to believe I could fly.
All I had todo was step of a flight of stairs and I'd be walking in the air...— Dolly - i asked my step dad why i never see icecream trucks in cali and he said there iligel— brittany
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie