As a child, I could never figure out how the traffic signals knew when to change from green to yellow to red and back to green. After much puzzling over this mystery, I decided that there must be a person in the sewers at each intersection who would flip a switch whenever it was time for the light to change. I couldn't imagine why anyone would want such a job!

ZiZak

i use to think that in order to cross the street in a car that you had to push the pedestrian crossing button. I also used to the think that the blue reflectors on the streets were lights and i always wondered who turned them on every night.

c

i used to think that tiny little white mice with microphones and a huge desk covered in buttons controlled the streetlights, i could always picture them screaming to one another what button to press.

MiceMaybe

when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.

Anon

When I was 5 or so, I always thought that the light singals would go in any order. I never knew why my mom would slow at a yellow light. I thought if it was yellow the light was trying to make up its mind to turn green or red.

Anon

When I was like 2 or 3 my mom convinced me that if we tried hard ebough ... we could get the traffic light to turn green ... we did this by naming green things ...green grass green eyes green shirt green socks greaan umbrella and so on - lolz

Alanna

i used to believe that there was a little green alien a little orange alien and a little red alien that only stood up when they felt like it

ass hole

I used to think that traffic lights could see cars because how would they know when to let the other cars go through?

Jaime B

I used to think street lights had hidden cords in bushes

Anon

I used to believe that all traffic lights were operated by people in a big control room under the streets. I have no clue where this idea came from.

Rachel

When I was about six years old, I used to go shopping with my grandfather. When we were standing in front of a traffic light, he could always tell me when it would turn green, but when I tried, I wasn't even close. I thought he had special powers. Now I know he just looked if the cars on the road had already stopped, because our light would turn green then.

Lucky Duck

i used to believe that there was a man that who lives in a little house and his job was to change the colour on the traffic lights...red, yellow, green... ok, now you can go...

Anon

when i was little i belived that the traffic lights where a ufo spaceship because they changed colours quite quickly. whenever i went past a traffic light i used to close my eyes and now i look back and laught at myself.

the wardens

like a lot of people here it seems....i believed my mom had the power to predict when the light would change, because she was looking at the other side for it to turn yellow. but i had forgotten about this for a long time, and only just realized how she did it by reading all the other people's memories....DOH!

Anon

when i was younger i thought all traffic lights were controlled by a person sitting in a building looking out the window at each intersection

fiona, nz

I used to think that at each intersection with traffic lights, a little man would sit underground with video cameras. His job was to look to see who had been waiting the longest to see who would get the next green light.

Erica Brandt

I used to believe that the traffic lights were operated by a miniature person who hid close to the traffic lights so he could direct traffic. I thought that he used a remote control to do this!

Goatgirl

My dad used to tell us that he could change the traffic light from red to green by blowing at it from his spot in the driver's seat. We believed it until we finally learned that he was watching the lights on the other side and could see when they were changing from green to yellow to red. He had really GREAT timing!

Anon

I spent years believing that little men lived under roads controlling the traffic lights, after I asked my Dad when I was four years old "How do they know when the cars are coming?" This belief also applied to Zebra and Pelican crossings...

Kenny