Mao sees Red !

I read something really funny the other day .. I dont know whether its actually true or not ...

You all know about how traffic lights work - "Green" means Go and "Red" means Stop and so on.

Apparently, when Chairman Mao Zedong was the Chinese Premier, he was at a stop light one day and the red light came on and his motorcade was forced to stop.

This pissed him off, because red was the color of the revolution/communism and he didnt like the fact that it was associated with a slowing of speeds/stopping.

So, he ordered all traffic lights in China to be changed around such that "Green" meant stop and"Red" meant go ...

Imagine the confusion in China for the few days that the lights were changed around !