traffic lights

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."

Anon

I used to believe that some little guy lived on the traffic light and decided what cars can go and what cars can stay. So one day when I was walking with my mom I shouted at the traffic light to see if anyone was there. He didn't say anything so I thought he was deaf or he was busy.

Corinne

When I was four I thought that the only purpose of traffic lights are 2 annoy the bloody hell out of people. At 1st I did not realise that traffic lights are suppose to 2 make intersections safe.

Anon

I used to think that when you got to a stoplight that there were cars coming in your direction on the other side in the same lane. I would always ask my mom "What happens if the both sides of the street fills up?" She never understood what I was talking about.

Mia

When I was real little, and I would be in the car with my mom driving, whenever she took a left turn, I would have to warn her that she just went through a red light. Well, the red light was for the street she was turning onto. duh.

Anon

I used to believe that if you blow at a traffic light it would change to green

Bree

When i was younger i used to believe that the red blinking traffic lights were just like red lights, except that you had to go right between blinks

McKenzie

When I was little, my dad would tell me that he was psychic and he knew when red lights would change green, and he would do it with amazing accuracy. It was years before I realized he was just looking at when the other lights in the intersection turned red.

stephen

I used to think that when the light turned green, everyone started driving at the exact same time - that you didn't wait for the car in front of you to start moving before you started riving. So when I got older and started noticing that we didn't immediately start driving when the light turned green, I got confused...

Deanna

Whenever my family took a drive, I always wondered how the traffic lights knew what to do. My theory was that a man with a huge control panel was hisdden in the bushes watching and pushing just the right buttons. =)

Ciarlene

I used to think traffic lights were controlled by a man in a tower pressing red, yellow and green buttons to make the lights change...

Anon

My mom used to tell me about the lights. Red means stop, green means go, and yellow means drive really fast!

NDH

When I was a real little kid, I knew directions everywhere, so one day when my mom was driving (I was in the backseat) and stopped at a stoplight I commented about how the people who worked the stoplights never got to go home. My mom then laughed and told me that machines worked the stoplights. I was terrified! I told my mom they could make us crash and that people could control it better! Which, really, isn't true at all.

Sarahtops

I thought pushing the button at the crosswalk more would make the light change faster- after all, I pushed it a bunch of times and it changed so I had to be right?

Nate

I used to think and tell my granny that traffic lights were controlled by a little bordo and that if I shouted "RED, YELLOW AND... GREEN!" the bird eventually heard me and switched the light from red to green.

Nimega

when i was a little kid, i used to believe that there was someone controlling stoplights. like, a little man in a big room full of buttons and litghts and cameras. it just made sense to me, because as soon as there got to be a lot of cars on the side of the road where i was sitting, the light turned from red to green, and we could go. i was so convinced, that sometimes, i would even wave at the stoplights, just to see what would happen. and silly me, if the light turned right after that, i thought it was all about me.

anonymous

I used to think street lights had hidden cords in bushes

Anon

I used to believe that there was a man sitting under the traffic lights in his own little botth controlling all the stop lights and that the man holes were how you got down into the booth so i would always talk into them.

:-)

when i was younger i thought that traffic lights had little colored(red yellow and green)'light discs' in them. when the light turned green a green 'light disc' would pop up into the right hole. there had to be a lot of them so they wouldnt get tired tho.

jackie

My friend Nicole told me when she was younger she knew that green meant "go" and red meant "stop"..yellow meant "hurry up and go before the light turns red!"

Pamela