Like a lot of other people, I believed that there were people underground at all the intersections making the traffic lights change. But for some reason I specifically thought that it was a group of out-of-work pirates.
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
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- I used to believe that the pirates on the pirates of the caribbean ride would come to life and eat me!— Captain Jack Sparrow
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~