Get ready to go
Earlier this week, Darling Angel asked me “what does the orange light do?”, referring to the traffic lights. “It tell us to get ready to stop”, I replied. “Oh” she said reflecting on my answer.
The following day she asked “what does the blue light do?”. “There’s no blue light”, I replied. “There is! I saw it. I saw it” she said emphatically. “What does it do?!”
“I don’t know”, I shrugged, not in the mood for an argument.
Darling Angel perked up. “I think it tells us get ready to go” she declared. “That’s what it tells us”. I did not disagree.
Today, her attention turned to “Do not enter” signs. “What does enter mean mommy?” she asked. Trick question? I wondered. “It means to go in” I said. “Then what does do not enter mean?”. “Not to go in”, I replied. Apparently, she just wanted to verify her understanding of the street sign.
“So mommy, when you see ‘do not enter’, you should not go in there. Okay? Because ‘do not enter’ means that we shouldn’t go in there, so you shouldn’t go that way. Okay mommy?”
Well, I’m grateful to Darling Angel for interpreting road signs for me. With her in the backseat, I won’t be driving in the wrong direction on one-way streets.
