enLIGHTenment
A friend of Chris’s was kind enough to give me a Media Play gift certificate for fixing her computer. Last night I took Marissa and Katie there to cash it in. After what seemed to be an eternity, they agreed on a Polly Pockets toy. This was after Marissa vetoed Katie’s My Little Pony selection and I vetoed the Baskin Robbin’s Ice Cream Maker.
Then we went to dinner and a movie. Being 7-year-olds, they chose McDonald’s and Ice Princess. (Chris informed later that she never goes to that particular McDonald’s because its PlayPlace is a veritable peri dish for childhood communicable diseases. Good to note for the future.)
On the way home after the movie, the girls and I discussed the merits of traffic lights. Marissa wondered why the chose red, yellow, and green for their colors. She said she would have chosen purple for “Go”. I pointed out that the purple is close in hue to red and that might be confusing, and they probably picked green because is further away on the color wheel from red.
The girls shot a hole in my theory by mentioning that yellow was kinda close to both green and red.
Katie said she was most confused about yellow. It sometimes meant “caution” and sometimes meant “slow”. I tried to expain its true meaning, but Katie interrupted and said, to Marissa,
“when daddy drives, yellow means go very fast.”