Green Light. Red Light.

So one of my students is absolutely obsessed with traffic lights. He never stops talking about traffic lights. This is slightly more disturbing/annoying given the fact that there really isn't all that much to say about traffic lights.

I have seen little boys obsess over trucks, or baseball cards, or dinosaurs, but never traffic lights. I had a classmate in first grade who knew everything there was to know about fire extinguishers -- incidentally, he would do a Steve Urkelesque "Did somebody say cheese???" (except substitute "fire extinguishers" for "cheese") query almost every day. But fire extinguishers seem slightly more interesting since there is that whole fire-rescue and chemical aspect to it. It's more flashy.

But a traffic light?

Yesterday we were writing autobiographies and he mentioned his love for traffic lights no less than three times. Today he pointed out that a bar graph we had drawn looked similar to a special kind of traffic light that shows the directions you can turn (he gave me its technical name which I don't remember). And as he was leaving school today he informed me that he likes all sorts of traffic signs, but the traffic signal is his favorite.

Lucky for him, his mother also told me today that he will be getting a traffic light for his room on his birthday in a couple of weeks. That'll be one happy kid.

Me? I'm obsessed with candy.