My sister and I heard the phrase kerb-crawler on television and logically assumed it to mean someone who drove slowly and close to the kerb, like an old granny (it never occured to us for what reason they were doing that). We were somewhat confused when our mum told us off for shouting it out the car window at some man who was driving really slowly, and oddly enough she refused to tell us what it actually meant
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee
- My older sister used to tell me that ants were bees. My mom was very confused when I refused to go outside.— Paulette
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- I used to believe that the oddly-shaped clouds were made from oddly-shaped sheep— Dickson