When I was young, I used to think that there were little men who lived in the traffic lights and had to manually change the lights so people knew when to go and stop. One little man would flip the green switch, one the yellow, and one the red!
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- 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 believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon