For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!
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
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- 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 ~
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda