When I was little I used to think that all traffic lights were controlled by little men living underground beneath them. I used to get upset and yell at them when they would give us a red light when we were late...

craig

I used to believe that underneath the roads near traffic lights there were huge warehouses.
I thought traffic lights were worked the same way as ringing bells. Little elves lived underneath the roads and pulled the right coloured rope to change the traffic lights to a certain colour.

I thought I was going to grow up to be a traffic light elf!

Mimi

I used to think there was a little man, that lived inside each of the traffic lights in the world that opereated them

Redmaiden

I used to believe that there were midgets inside traffic lights that changed the colors of the light.

weasuL

I used to believe that there were tiny men in traffic lights that operate the lights.

Anon

When I was about 5 I thought little people hid inside stop-lights to turn them on and off. When I told my mom this, she looked at me like I was crazy then explained to me that it was on timers etc. I still didn't believe her for another year or two later.

Anon

I used to think that little men were inside the traffic lights so they could the colors!

Anon

traffic lights were controlled by people sitting underneath the light

Anon

Everytime I rode with my parents in their car as a kid, I'd always hate stopping at traffic lights; I used to believe that traffic lights were actually operated by little traffic gnomes who decided when the lights would change to red, green, or yellow based on whether the driver was good or bad, or whether or not they were in a particularly good mood. Waiting at a red light for a long while made me hate those gnomes quite a bit.

Bob

When I was little I always thought that the traffic lights were not going because of electricity, but because of little men living in them. The little men would see when no cars were coming and see how the other cars were waiting. So the little man who was in charge of the green light would tell the yellow one and the yellow one would tell the red one, and the red one would unstrew his lightbulb and the yellow one would screw in his yellow lightbulb and so forth.
But I'd always wondered how they got any sleep

Nikki

I used to believe there were little men inside traffic lights controlling them.

Mrs Squarepants

I used to believe that little elves lived in traffic lights and controlled them.

Traffic Life Elf

When i was little i was told by my mother there where little men in traffic lights that used to change the colour of the lights! I told other kids in school and got the mick taken out of me for ages. That cut deep!

Anon

That little men lived in the traffic lights and that's how they changed at the right time.

Annie

I used to beleive that little men operated the traffic lights from inside. They were really skinny and had white long beards and they had elevators to get to the levels where they swiched on and off the lights, and catch the people who went though red lights Then there was a power outage and the lights weren't working so I told my mom that the men would fix it...

togy

When I was younger I thought that in traffic lights were men who pushed the different colored lights.....

Brunette11

I used to believe that stop lights were operated by mice who would pull light chains inside the box like the mice in Cinderella.

Lydia

I used to believe that little men were inside stop lights, making them work. How else would the lights know a car was waiting?

JAS

I believed at a very young age that there were little people in the street lights that changed the color of the lights

Ivy

i used to belive that in the traffic lights there were many little people working the lights.

Anon.