When driving to work, most of us, no matter
our beliefs, usually let out the two same never-ending chants. “Please don’t
turn red, please don’t turn red, please don’t turn red, oh please don’t turn
red…” and the ever favourite “I can make it, I can make it, I can make it…”
In vain we try our best to exert whatever
physic powers we may possess to keep the traffic light staying green, while
manoeuvring through masses of other cars that obviously are not as busy and in
a hurry as we are. Other people don’t have to get to work to right? They just
want to be on the road at silly o’clock in the morning for no reason
whatsoever. Except maybe to bother us poor few, on our daily commute.
However, most of us don’t have psychic powers. Chances are you can’t make it through and you shouldn’t even try the
accelerator because you’ll have to break very fast. The traffic lights will
turn red, and sometimes maybe your face will too, no matter how often and how much will power you put into your daily
incantations.
Sometimes though I bet a few of us think ‘hey
maybe reverse psychology will work on traffic lights’. “Please be red,” we think
as hard as we can, looking at the green lights in the distance. Then as if by
magic, they do turn red. Huh, maybe we do have psychic powers after all.
