i used to believe that there was a man that who lives in a little house and his job was to change the colour on the traffic lights...red, yellow, green... ok, now you can go...
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon