When I was little, when we came to a pelican crossing, my Mum used to hold my hand and say "Now watch for the green man and then we can cross."
So I always used to watch out for a man with green skin to walk down the road and wave to us so we could cross.
I was puzzled as to why it never happened.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- I thought if you get gangrene your skin turns green— Cyberdemon
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- My visual representation of GOD was Mr Clean wearing a white robe... but his skin was a green/yellowish color.— Ryan Williams
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty