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

i used to think traffic lights were controlled by a whole team of specialists in a nasa-like building, pressing buttons to make the lights red and green

none

My friend used to believe that the lights that tell you when to cross the road were real people that were just really little and were employed to paint themselves red or green, dependng on whether they were "safe to cross" or "don't cross" and then appear when they were needed.

Sue Ridge

when i was little i used to belive that there were babies with toliet plungers randomly changning and always be correct

L.

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 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 tiny people worked underground at stop lights, watching for cars coming and going. They were in charge of making the lights change color, watching through parascope like binoculars.

kja

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

Jaime B

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 used to believe that the traffic lights were controlled by gnomes in air balloons, and that if you asked the gnomes to change the color of the light they would. I thought there was someone inside the refridgerator turning the light on and off and I thought soap operas were reality TV.

Michelle

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

Stop lights had sensors that knew when cars were coming or not~that's how they turned red/yellow/green.

Anon

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 a little girl I used to belive a little man sat above the traffic lights and decided when they should be changed. When i started driving myself I figured out that was not possible.

Kimberly

i used to believe that there were little people working the trafic lights, and i thought that the speakers on the tv were mikes to talk to the people on the tv!! wow! i can't believe that i thought that! my mom and dad had a good time laughing at me tho.

Hannah

When I was about 7 or 8 I used to think that there were little people under the road at the traffic lights. They would choose whose turn it was to go and stop by pressing a switch, kind of like a light switch.

Rachel

When I was about 4 or 5..up until i was about 7 or 8 I was always told that it was pigeons that changed the traffic lights to red amber and green. When i went out in the car with my mum or dad I'd always shout come on you stupid pigeons! if the light was red.

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 believe that traffic lights were controlled by people that were kept in the telephone poles on the corners of the street.

Jimmy