I used to believe (because my mom told me this) that there were little men that lived inside the traffic lights that operated them. She told me that was why the lights worked all the time, and if we saw a broken traffic light, she would say, "poor little man's gonna get fired for that". I believed this far longer than I should have.
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