I used to believe that at stop lights, cars talked to one another and just rested. I imagined them as out of breath and spreading gossip about the other cars and discussing the traffic up the road.
I eventually asked my mother if that's what the stop lights were for. She laughed.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - 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 ~
- I used to think that Mice controlled the Stop lights and crosswalk signs.Anon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- i used to beleive that a traffic jam was wen cars got stuck in jam!Anon