i used to think that mice worked in the traffic lights and pushed the red, yellow, and green buttons all day when they felt like it. and that was why each light we had to wait at was either longer or shorter than the other one.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- 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
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon