When I was about 8, I heard the term 'kerb crawling' on the news. Upon asking what it meant, my mum informed me it was when people were walking along a kerb, trying to break into the cars parked in the street. I held this belief for about 10 years after that!
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that jay walking was walking naked on the street. — Kendra
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon