When I was young, I was certain that inside every single stop light, a small man was sitting and waiting for the man watching the traffic in the pole to tell him it was time to change the lights. My dad had pretty good luck with the colors and was always singing at the light so I was pretty sure they liked his singing, now I'm constantly belting a good tune when I'm waiting on a rather lengthy light to change.

Elle

I used to believe that there were people in a room underneath each traffic light that were responsible for changing the lights from green to yellow to red, and then from red to green.

Karen

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE LITTLE MEN IN THE STREET LIGHTS (TRAFFIC LIGHTS) THAT WOULD CONTROL WHO STOPS AND WHO GOES. "RED YELLOW GREEN."

DIANA

I used to believe that stop lights were controlled my men deep, deep underground in a control room, with certain buttons to make the lights a certain color.

Razz

I used to believe that there was someone in charge of stoplights in a city. When enough cars would accumulate at a red light, they would push a button and the light would turn green.

Katie Bonk

I used to believe that little babies were in the traffic lights controlling them. untill i was about 4. then realized that was impossible.

Anon

when I was young, I somehow didn't know the meaning of the red traffic light. So I figured out that it was meant for people from an other country. And when I thought of people from an other country, I somehow always thought of Chinese people(?). So when the red orange light turned into red, I was always looking around for Chinese people who drove through.

Joseffa Trip

i used to believe that traffics lights were controlled by mice watching for cars and running through the wires switching the lights for us

greg

I used to believe that very very skinny men slid into the light poles at intersections and switched the lights between green and yellow and red allllll day long.

Greg

I thought that the red traffic lights were for Chinese people. It then was their turn to drive...

Joseffa Trip

I used to get upset when I would wait at a crosswalk and a large truck would pass, because I thought it would block my view of the signal that told me to cross. It took me about two years to realize that this would never happen, because I wasn't going to be allowed to walk in front of moving vehicles.

Jessica

When I was little, when we came to a pelican crossing, my Mum used to hold my hand and say "Now watch for the green man and then we can cross."
So I always used to watch out for a man with green skin to walk down the road and wave to us so we could cross.
I was puzzled as to why it never happened.

Jen

I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!

M. L. E.

When I was very young (3-4) I use to think there were little men/creatures/elves...whatever you want to call them...that lived in traffic lights and they were responsible for changing the colors. I can remember getting stuck at a really long red light and I was sitting in the backseat thinking..."Gosh, this guy is NOT doing his job! He must be asleep..." Silly me!

Amanda

I used to think that ALL traffic lights were controlled by ONE person!!! I thought that it must be such a hard job to work out which lights had to be what colours!!! I eventually thought that they just each turned red, orange or green for 1 minuite...I only learnt in year 9 that sensors were used!!!

hard work!!!

I used to believe that at every traffic intersection where there was a stoplight, that there was a man inside of the home or building on the corner who watched the traffic all day long. He would be the one to make the stoplights work.

Barbara G.

I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...

Anon

I used to believe that I could predict the green left turn lights and that the color was determined by the fairies that lived inside of them. I would tell my dad whether it was going to be arrow shaped or just a green circle and tell him that I was magic whenever I was correct. It wasn't until I was ten that I noticed the giant "LEFT TURN SIGNAL" signs on the light poles that I "predicted" at.

Brianne

For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!

Melissa