I used to think that ALL traffic lights were controlled by ONE person!!! I thought that it must be such a hard job to work out which lights had to be what colours!!! I eventually thought that they just each turned red, orange or green for 1 minuite...I only learnt in year 9 that sensors were used!!!
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- i used to beleive that elves controlled traffic lights.— Jessica
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon