I used to believe that stoplights were controlled by people. I thought that there was a man in a room that overlooked intersections (every intersection), and pressed buttons to change the light.

Stacy

When I was about four or five years old, I used to believe the squirls would control the traffic lights. I used to sit in the car, and when the light wouldn't change, I thought the squirl fell asleep!

a little insane

I used to think that there were little tiny green men under the ground that watched people at stop lights and determined when to change the light to green, yellow, or red.

MV

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

i used to believe that there was a man in the stoplight holding a flash light. that christmas, my mom saw my christmas list and asked me why i wanted a new flashlight and batteries. i said it was for the guy in the stoplight. then my mom explaned to meand i felt like a dope :-P

bloo

My mom HATES red lights when she's driving. (as do I) But when I was about 4 till I was about 7 I thought I had magic powers, that I could use my finger and brain power to change the red lights to green.

Jessie

I used to believe that streetlights were controlled by people far away and if there was a car accident you had to push the crossing button and tell them

Lyn

I used to beleive that underneath the traffic lights there used to be a man in an underground room with three switches on for stop,go and prepar to stop!

Brendan

I used to believe that I could predict the green left turn lights and that the color was determined by the fairies that lived inside of them. I would tell my dad whether it was going to be arrow shaped or just a green circle and tell him that I was magic whenever I was correct. It wasn't until I was ten that I noticed the giant "LEFT TURN SIGNAL" signs on the light poles that I "predicted" at.

Brianne

I used to think that ALL traffic lights were controlled by ONE person!!! I thought that it must be such a hard job to work out which lights had to be what colours!!! I eventually thought that they just each turned red, orange or green for 1 minuite...I only learnt in year 9 that sensors were used!!!

hard work!!!

I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...

CrowHeart

I used to believe that if you were stuck at a red light, you should blow real hard an swish your hands so that it turns green! I did this up until i was about 7.........LoLz

Silly Little Girl

When I was about 8, I was visiting the beach in New Jersey. I was walking from the hotel with a group of about 10 neighbors. I saw a stoplight and I wondered how in the world they knew how to change colors when you pressed the little button to cross the street. I asked my friend Mackenzie and she replied "Sakura, you mean you don't know? Inside those little poles that hold up the stoplights, there are tiny midgets who work them." We thought we were so smart knowing that the streetlights were run by midgets.

Sakura

i used to think two worker-men worked inside each traffic light, kind of like Mario and Luigi. they both sat inside the traffic lights, and used a hammer to tap a button that activated each colored light

Anon

I used to think that there were full sized men curled up inside of the traffic lights who switched the lights from red to green.

Casey

I used to believe that under every traffic light at an intersection, there was a police man in an underground room, turning the lights green when there were over 5 cars waiting, and red when there was noone.

anarki

I used to believe for the stop lights to work there were trolls going up and down little stairs and they would change the colors of the light from green to yellow to red.

Gabby

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

Heazure

i thought that there were people with binoculars on every corner that had remote controls that changed the traffic lights but they wouldnt change the light until you gave them the secret sign so at every corner i would shoot the traffic light with my hand and if the little people saw me they would change the light

Anon

When I was a little girl, my mind was extremely confused with the system of traffic lights. Sitting at the back of our car and waiting for the green to move, I was constantly wondering how on earth those drivers were so sure about the fact that the light happened to turn to red on our side and how they managed to halt just before we passed across the road. This seemed something unbelievably hard to grasp until I got an explanation from my dad at the age of five. ...

Tess