When I was little my mom used to tell me that the traffic lights had computers in them. I would imagine little mice coming to work each morning to work these big computers. Kind of like the ones on Star Treck.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I used to believe that fax machines and computers sent real sheets of paper through the lines.— H
- I always thought 'virgin' was Marys star sign and could never work out why it was such a big dealAnon
- I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light — Kelly bulanek
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I thought that when the lights went out, putting a candle behind the tv would make it work :)— Ricky