when I was younger I once saw my friend after she had had a green lollipop, and her tongue was green. from that point on until I was about 8, I believed the stoplights changed because of people sticking their tongues on the glass.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- when i was younger i thought ants had tongues. i always pictured them sticking their tongues out at me. — i was an idiot
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- When I was younger, I used to think that barney was a giant purple and green puppy!Anon