When I was a child, I used to believe that traffic lights were operated by a person underground who saw everything and changed their colour with a button, so he or she decided when the cars could pass and when not.
A childhood belief about traffic lights
others believed things like this
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- when i was little thought that ants changed traffic lights from green to red and vice versa.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 ~