My dad used to claim he could make the light change from red to green at his command. He would say, "Ooma, ooma, booma!" and the light would change. What I didn't realize until I was 7 that he started saying his "magical phrase" when another light turned from green to yellow.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- I used to think that on day light savings time you had to stay up till 2:00am to change the clocks! — Sandy
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler