My Dad told me that those Big boxes on stop-light poles(used for timers for the stop-lights)were actually refrigerators for the cops, and thats where they keep their lunch, I believed it until I was 12! I'm 13 now
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - I used to think that Mice controlled the Stop lights and crosswalk signs.Anon
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali