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I use to think the poles holding up traffic lights were hollow, and there was a person sitting inside throwing switches to change the lights while looking at a watch to keep the timing fair.
I thought there was a little room under ground with people watching cameras underneath each intersection to control the lights
Traffic lights were hand operated.
The small town where I grew up had one pedestrian traffic light for crossing the main road. There was a small brick shed next to that traffic light with no windows and a little door. When I was little I was convinced that was an operation’s center where someone worked to turn the lights red or green.
In reality it was a power substation for the neighborhood, but I was seriously convinced that behind that door was a man looking at a TV screen and operating the traffic light at the right moment.
When we went to a larger town nearby, where there were traffic lights without a convenient mysterious building nearby, I told myself that the traffic light people were most likely working under ground, peeping through the drains.I… was good at making up answers for myself instead of just asking my parents.
My mom told me that Dad went to work to make money, and I actually expected to see money making machines when I visited him at the office.
That the Gulf War was in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the only one I knew!
That our blood was blue, but turned red when exposed to air and light. All because a teacher told us so.
I heard this one from a teacher as well when I was very young! And it may well have been the same teacher telling us that blood was made of white blood cells and red blood cells, and I knew from my deep work in relevant fields (paints and crayons) that this combination did not result in blue.
Oh yeah I had a few.
- That the moon you see during daytime is actually Mars (I then repeated that to my big sister and she believed it for an embarrassingly long amount of time)
- That the “up” arrows on traffic lights were for planes
Me in the middle of my flight when my plane pauses in midair to wait for a traffic light
That all large salty bodies of water were called “the mediterranean sea.”
The big stereo speakers in my living room contained tiny orchestras
That my grandma’s name was “grandma”.
That Europe is a separate country where all the politicians live
To be faaaaaaaaiir. They might as well
I thought chocolate was a color
That Everyone the Police arrest is a bad person.
That my parents never had parents. Sure, I had grandparents and saw them daily, but I somehow never realized that they were my dad’s parents.
That people with a beard where poor people. I always felt sorry for them not able to afford a shaving kit.
The preferred term is hobo-chic actually.
That the ice crystals on popsicles were bad for you and only girls could eat them cuz they were immune to the koodies
the koodies ?
Cooties
