Hahahahaha....
Your mention of the lights just reminded me of when an early-ish circuit student I was with in a C152 lost directional control & ran us off the runway. He'd confused his left & right and applied the wrong pedal. Somehow he managed to get the us running in line with the RWY lights with the nosewheel & prop. centred on the next light.
We were too slow to get airborne and too fast & close to stop or swerve. All I could do was apply full backstick with full power to increase the elevator effectiveness in the hope that raising the nose would lift the wheel & prop above the light.
Once over the light then lowered the nose just in the case the tail was also aligned with the light and steered us back onto the runway.
Hadn't thought about that in years! I'm bloody glad we used to play around in those a/c seeing who could keep the nose wheel in the air the longest, get it of the ground the soonest, stop the shortest etc etc!
