When I was a young child I used to believe that the cats eyes in the middle of the road were actually lights operated by a man in an underground room beneath the road who switched them on and off whenever traffic drove along the road. I never worked out how he knew the traffic was there so he had to switch them on.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's