When I was little, somewhere between four and six, I watched a cartoon which had the line "There's a short circuit at the substation! That's why the traffic lights aren't working!". I didn't know what a short circuit or a substation was, but thought that substations were something that somehow made traffic lights not work. One time, my mother and I were passing some traffic lights and I pointed at something and asked, "What's that?". She replied that it was a substation and I said, "but the traffic lights work fine."
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- 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 ~
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley