I used to think that when you got to a stoplight that there were cars coming in your direction on the other side in the same lane. I would always ask my mom "What happens if the both sides of the street fills up?" She never understood what I was talking about.

Mia

When I was real little, and I would be in the car with my mom driving, whenever she took a left turn, I would have to warn her that she just went through a red light. Well, the red light was for the street she was turning onto. duh.

Anon

When i was younger i used to believe that the red blinking traffic lights were just like red lights, except that you had to go right between blinks

McKenzie

When I was little, my dad would tell me that he was psychic and he knew when red lights would change green, and he would do it with amazing accuracy. It was years before I realized he was just looking at when the other lights in the intersection turned red.

stephen

I used to think that when the light turned green, everyone started driving at the exact same time - that you didn't wait for the car in front of you to start moving before you started riving. So when I got older and started noticing that we didn't immediately start driving when the light turned green, I got confused...

Deanna

I used to think traffic lights were controlled by a man in a tower pressing red, yellow and green buttons to make the lights change...

Anon

My mom used to tell me about the lights. Red means stop, green means go, and yellow means drive really fast!

NDH

when i was a little kid, i used to believe that there was someone controlling stoplights. like, a little man in a big room full of buttons and litghts and cameras. it just made sense to me, because as soon as there got to be a lot of cars on the side of the road where i was sitting, the light turned from red to green, and we could go. i was so convinced, that sometimes, i would even wave at the stoplights, just to see what would happen. and silly me, if the light turned right after that, i thought it was all about me.

anonymous

I used to think street lights had hidden cords in bushes

Anon

I used to believe that there was a man sitting under the traffic lights in his own little botth controlling all the stop lights and that the man holes were how you got down into the booth so i would always talk into them.

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when i was younger i thought that traffic lights had little colored(red yellow and green)'light discs' in them. when the light turned green a green 'light disc' would pop up into the right hole. there had to be a lot of them so they wouldnt get tired tho.

jackie

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 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 think that there were little men that sat on the top of the telephone poles near intersections and watched traffic. they flipped switches that controled traffic lights.

Lydia

I used to think traffic lights had sensors in them that could tell if enough people were in the left turning lane, for example, or wanting to go straight, and would turn green to lessen the congestion.

Angry Sar

When I was about 6 I believed that traffic lights were controlled by men who worked underground in a darkened room with stone walls and floors. The men would make the lights change by pulling on the appropriate string, which dangled from the ceiling.

Marianne

I used to believe there was like an arcade game in a pole for trafic lights, and someone was playing the game and that made the lights change.

Ali

I used to believe that if you blow at a traffic light it would change to green

Bree

Whenever my family took a drive, I always wondered how the traffic lights knew what to do. My theory was that a man with a huge control panel was hisdden in the bushes watching and pushing just the right buttons. =)

Ciarlene

When I was a little kid (like 3 or 4) I thought the green arrow pointing forward on a stoplight meant for the car to flyup into the sky.

Caitlin