When I was around 10-12 years old, my best friend [who is also my cousin] let me know what rape was when I asked. She said "rape is when you grab a person by the sleeve of their shirt and make them have sex with you." i said "they have to grab your sleeve?" and she said "yes! they must grab the sleeve or else it's not really rape." ahahhahahhahahahhhahhahahhahahhahhahahhhahahahhhahahahaha. i find it funny when i think of how i believed that.

Valerie G.

I used to be trrified to bother those do not remove under penelty of law tags. I thought that if I pulled one off The police would know and come and get me

outlaw

i belived that little children could not sit in the front passsenger seat and if they did they went to prission and every time i heard a siren i ducked

sophie

I used to think that "don't drink and drive" meant don't drink a coke and drive.

C

I used to think that rape was when you took off someone's clothes, but usually only the shirt and shoes. How wrong I was.

Anon

many years ago my husband andi were discussing peter sutcliffe's arrest. we said,"oh, he will plead insanity"insanity this" "insanity that"
our daughter, who would be,ooh probably 10 yrs old at the time,said but what has santy(claus) got to do with it?
then again, i always thought, as a child, everyone was happy when they got married. how wrong was I

maureen bell

when i was litte, like 7 or so, i would always put my money away in a certain way, i would but the higher bills on the very bottom then the lowers bills then i'd cover it with quarters and then dimes and then nickles and then pennies, that way if someone came in through my money looking to steel my money they would think that i didn't have that much since they couldn't see it

chelsea

when i was in preschool, one of my friends in the class told me that a murderer lived next door to the school house. i was scared for weeks to go outside and look over the fence at that house. but then my dad told me that he knew the guy that lived in the house and that he wasnt a murderer.

bobby

When I heard someone was arrested for having sex with a minor, I thought that they were having sex with someone who works in a mine. Also a friend of mine thinks that a women should not have sex with a miner because they were unclean.

Anon

Wheni was young i used to belieave that if i turn of the lights of the room at night a burglar would come and kidnap me. thats wht i always leave the night light on.

Justin Micallef

When I was younger, my mom told me that if i keep writing on myself with ink, that it was against the law and the ink police was going to come and take me away from her.... It got me to stop writing on myself...lol

Kim A.

i used to think that if you didn't believe in god you went to prison!

Anon

As a kid at the Post Office I saw a wanted poster of Patty Hearst. I told my Dad we can look for her and if we capture her we can get the reward. He told me she was dangerous and if I saw her to tell a policeman and do nothing else. On the drive home I planned on how I would personally capture Patty Hearst if I saw her and turn her over to the police. When my Dad made a hard left turn my door flew open (I guess I did not shut it very well). It scared me to pieces and I believed it was a warning from Patty Hearst to leave her alone and don't even think of capturing her.

Robert

I used to belive that anyone who went in the drive-thru at burger king was a burgler.

:)

When I was younger i thought 'rape' was 'rake', while i still thought that this would be quite painful to be raked i really didnt think it would be as tramatizing as the women on tv made it...

Manda

One time my friend Sara said that if your name was Lizzie then Lizzie Borden would kill you with an ax when you were sleeping and since my name is Lizzie then I would always stay awake at night and take a long nap during the day.A couple nights later after Sara said that I heard a quiet laugh then two horrible screams and I think she was saying I would be next to be killed with an ax!

cookie101

When I was 2, I stole candy from a drugstore and of course, I didn't know what I was doing so my parents weren't mad. When I was 6, my parents told me about. I was terrified of going to jail and I couldn't sleep for months!

Emmy

I used to thinm that all criminals were like the bad guys on tv, but then I learned better and thought that there was no such thing as criminals!

Anon

Once, when i was little, i thought that going to jail was something that lmost every man did. I used to picture my dad in a 1 man cell

Pieguy

I used to believe that getting Raped was when someone took a rake and beat you with it.

Anon