This is my dad's explanation to me and my sisters when we were young as to why people stopped their cars at traffic lights: drivers like the sight of the red traffic lights so much that they stop their cars and look at them. They dislike looking at the green lights so much that when the light changes from red to green, they simply drive away.

Larry

I used to believe that some little guy lived on the traffic light and decided what cars can go and what cars can stay. So one day when I was walking with my mom I shouted at the traffic light to see if anyone was there. He didn't say anything so I thought he was deaf or he was busy.

Corinne

when i was 5 or 6 i use to think that all the street light in the world were controled by people underground and they saw the traffic with little video camaras

Zack

when i was very young i used to believe that there was a creature tho lived underneath roads in a wierd controll room, who changed all the trafic lights by pressing buttons, he looked a bit like chewbacca

albert uk

I used to believe that traffic lights were controlled by men in chairs somewhere and whenever the light took a really long time to turn green they had fallen asleep or went out to get coffee, and once I tried to get out of the car to wake them up to turn the light green. My mom almost went crazy when I did that!

Lady Confunded

I used to believe if a sang a song at stoplights, they would turn green. It was the to the tune of the Power Rangers song. It went "Go go green light! Go go! Go go!

Me

I used to believe there were people underground sitting at desks who operated the traffic lights.

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I believed that there were huge, invisible towers that people sat in and watched traffic lights and changed the signal when needed.

Anon

I thought when you click the button on a traffic light all the cars in the world shut off so you could cross the street!

xxx isobel harrop xxx

When I was young, there was a traffic light at an interection near my house that went out ever now and then. I used to think that some guy drove around in his car and threw something out the window that magicly made the traffic lights go out.

Amanda

I thought that if I blew wind out from my lips at the red light it would turn green magically.

Heazure

My sister is 10 years younger so she was 6 when I started driving, and everytime I was at an intersection with lights and turning, she would start getting upset because I was going through a red light. Thing is I wasn't going through a red light, except that when we were turning she would see the red light for the traffic going the opposite direction and think I was not obeying ALL of the lights.

Anon

Dad used to have me blow out the red lights. He would tell me when and sure enough - the light would turn green!

Lene

From when I was like 3 to 10 I used to think that there was a HUGE room with little moniters in it and there was one guy in a swirly chair with wheels and he controlled the lights. When I was like 7 I realized this was impossible I concluded that his chair automaticly went to the next light that needed to be changed (by magic of course). This soon made me think that only one traffic light in the whole world changed at a certain time.

ShawnB.

I used to think that my mom controlled the traffic lights because she'd say the incantation that the Sesame Street magician said, right as the other light was turning yellow. So she'd say, "A la peanut butter sandwiches," and the light would instantly turn green!!!

Samantha from California

when i was little my father always told me that the lights on top of the bridge towers were operated by little people who flicked their lighters.

kimberly

My Dad told me that those Big boxes on stop-light poles(used for timers for the stop-lights)were actually refrigerators for the cops, and thats where they keep their lunch, I believed it until I was 12! I'm 13 now

Sean

My friend Nicole told me when she was younger she knew that green meant "go" and red meant "stop"..yellow meant "hurry up and go before the light turns red!"

Pamela

When I was little, everytime we came to a traffic light with a crosswalk and the stop hand was flashing, I would start chanting "stop, stop, stop" until the red stop hand finally stopped. I really believed I was stopping it!

Dave