When I was about 7, I thought that all robbers could be easily recognized by their thuggish appearance, broken noses, 5:00 shadow and black-and-white horizontally-striped shirts. Once my brother and I got toy rubber bats (as in flying mammals), and we walked around the block looking for robbers. The idea was to shake the bats in their faces and scare them away. We didn't find any. What a boring neighborhood.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon
- I used to believe that moths were a species of bats that only ate the tag on the inside of your shirt— Bob the Baby
- I used to think that robbers had keys to every house and that's how they got in to take your stuff— Emma
- I used to believe that in old times the world was grey (black and white, i got the idea from old movies) — Bryce
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K