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...
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- I thought that the stripes of the zebra crossings was from a squashed zebra— Helen
- i used to believe that the signs for curvy roads were for snake crossingsAnon
- I used to belive that there was a god living in every traffic light, controlling the traffic!— Sukhi
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart