when I was young, I somehow didn't know the meaning of the red traffic light. So I figured out that it was meant for people from an other country. And when I thought of people from an other country, I somehow always thought of Chinese people(?). So when the red orange light turned into red, I was always looking around for Chinese people who drove through.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that euthanasia has something to do with young chinese people— CW
- I used to believe that if you touched Chinese people, they would break.— Christian
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.