I used to say thank-you to all red lights when they changed to green. My parents let me believe this until I started taking driving lessons!
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- 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 used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona