When I was in second grade, there was a scare, someone luring kids into his car. Our teacher told us about a man in a green car when she was a kid "He yelled at us, and was taking his clothes off, being ugly..." She must have meant to tell us to watch out for ANY stranger, but her badly thought-out, stammering explanation came out as "ANY man in a green car."
For about three years, I FREAKED whenever I saw a man in a green car. If I was outside, I hid behind my mother. If I was in our car, I would duck down in the back-seat.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- Because i could not see them, i thought my farts came out as green bubblesAnon
- I thought if you get gangrene your skin turns green— Cyberdemon