I used to believe that there was a button on the dash board that had to be pushed for the light to change. The problem was that the button was located in a different place for every traffic light. My parents would tell me, when I didn't try to find the button, that the light changed because another child in a different car had found it.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- I used to belive that there was a god living in every traffic light, controlling the traffic!— Sukhi