i thought the traffic lights were just christmas lights all year long to make the roads look pretty. i could never figure out why my parents always stopped at them. so, in regards to that, i always through a fit and told my mom to start driving.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley