When I was a little girl I used to belive a little man sat above the traffic lights and decided when they should be changed. When i started driving myself I figured out that was not possible.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I used to belive that there was a god living in every traffic light, controlling the traffic!— Sukhi
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart