I was watching the news with my mom when I was about 6 or 7, and heard about a woman getting raped, or "ranked", as I heard it.
A few weeks later at a boyscout meeting, we were given patches for our uniforms saying Rank ??. After the meeting I built up enough courage to pull thee scout leader aside and tell him i wasnt going to wear the patch because ranking someone was very bad, as my mom told me. I still remember the puzzled look on his face.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- I used to believe that the numbers athletes wore on their uniforms were their ages.— Sara
- I used to think oil patches on the roads was dead rainbows— Si
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch