I used to believe that little men lived in traffic lights and watched for cars before they turned the light from red to green;

chelsea

when I was younger I use to beleive that little men hid in stop light poles and they changed the lights form red to green for you. I would always smile at the one nearest to the car so he would change the light faster

Anon

i used to believe that for every street light there was a dwarf man underneath swiching it on and off. I had this vision of him sat in a swivel chair with computer screens all round him (very technical business) haha. And when his shift had finished the whole light and his work space would lift out of the ground and he would just step on to the street. Also for some reason i always imagined them with metal lunch boxes.

kirsty

When I was little, and stop lights were bigger and boxy, I used to believe that tiny people were operating the lights, and that they had little holes where they could peer out to see which side cars were coming from, and that they would change the lights of the colors accordingly

Sarah Kay

When I was little I used to believe little gnomes lived in redlights and watched the traffic to know when to change the color.

A dreamer

When i was little i thought Mice ran the stoplights and that they were inside the light watching us and laughing when we were stopped

Kayla

I used to believe that elves lived inside stop lights and made the light turn from color to color.

Anon

When I was a child I though that there were little gremlins in the traffic lights that switched the lights. It always seemed like the lights changed at the exact right moment!

Alex

When I was little I used to think there was a man inside a tiny box full of buttons and monitors and switches, below the ground in the middle of every intersection and that he controlled all the traffic lights.

Anon

I used to believe there were people sitting in each traffic light, overseeing their designated intersection and changing the lights at their discretion.

Rachel B

I used to believe that people lived inside of traffic light poles and it was their job to pull a lever that changed the color of the lights. I always wondered how a person could be so skinny to fit in there.

Anon

I don't know how I got this idea, but when I was little I used to believe that little men changed the stop lights at their will. So when we came to the stop lights I would always wave up at them to make them happy so they'd let us pass.

Anon

When I was about 5 I used to believe that mice were controlling the stop lights and there would be one mouse telling them when to turn the light over a head set.

Candice

When I was little, I used to believe that a mouse ran the traffic lights.

Jen

i used to believe that there were little people in the street lights that payed attention to the cars and traffic, so whenever they felt it necessary, they would switch it. They lived in the lights.

Anon

Stoplights work by using little men behind the colors. Getting stopped at multiple stoplights in a row meant that you had angered these little men and had to pay a ticket you got in the mail

Dan

I used to believe that there were little men inside traffic lights, controlling when they changed, and if you were bad, it would turn read and if you were good it would turn green.

Anon

When I was little, I believed that there was a man in a big silver box changing the stoplights. For years I was thinking, COME ON DUDE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER!!!
Then when I finally asked one day
"hey mom, how do the stop and go lights change?" then I knew.

Anon

When I was four, I thought that the traffic lights were controlled by little mice in a control room inside of each traffic light.

JC