I used to believe that very very skinny men slid into the light poles at intersections and switched the lights between green and yellow and red allllll day long.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.Anon