I used to believe that when people said a criminal was going to "the slammer," that the slammer was some sort of machine that crushed people. So when Boss Hogg would state that he was going to put those Duke Boys in the slammer, I actually thought that he meant to execute them.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I believed that I could actually grow up to BE Daisy Duke.— Jen
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon