I'm de-lightful, are you?

[vanilla]

Me and my son walk around our neighborhood in the evening. Twice, we have walked by a street light, and its gone out when we walked by, only to go back on again after we've passed.
Has this happened to any of you?

[hajario]

Back in my college days there was this one women I used to hang with. I swear that it must have happened to us a dozen times with six or seven different street lights. It was a running joke with us.

Haj

[Violet]

Reverse motion detector lights?

Harry Potter??

[Coldfire]

The Master's take on it. (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_047.html)

[p@cific@812]

I enjoyed Cecil's article on this subject and immediately directed it to a friend of mine when I chanced upon it a month or so ago. You see, much like hajario, we have a running gag about it. I have no clue why it happens, but its uncanny how often streetlights turn off in the presence of this guy. I'm talking a flawless representation of the "light turns off as he approaches, turns on after he has passed" phenomena.

[Sublight]

I'm sub-lightful.

[anya marie]

My light never goes out.