I used to beleive that the red and green stoplights at each intersection had seceret cameras built in and the people watching from the cameras would wait until the other side was being very polight, and then changed the light to green.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- I used to believe that my mom had surveillance cameras everywhere I went and could always see what I was doing— Mikhail
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- When I was little, I thought there were tiny cameras everywhere and they belonged to the government.— Brooke
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty