When I was little, I used to think that there were tiny, midget policemen in swivel-chairs that operated the switches inside of traffic lights, and I thought it must be hard to find people that were both small enough and that wanted to be a cop.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- Pizza deliverymen men are aloud to run red lights such as policemen do.— Ben
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon