I thought that underneath intersections there were big control rooms with lots of buttons and lots of men who spent their day randomly pushing buttons that controlled the traffic lights.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- i used to beleive that elves controlled traffic lights.— Jessica
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets