I used to beleive that little men operated the traffic lights from inside. They were really skinny and had white long beards and they had elevators to get to the levels where they swiched on and off the lights, and catch the people who went though red lights Then there was a power outage and the lights weren't working so I told my mom that the men would fix it...
A childhood belief about traffic lights

you weren't the only one
254 of you believed this
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- i used to beleive that elves controlled traffic lights.— Jessica
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie