Thankfully as a child, I had no concept of "assault" and a battery was what made things work. With the term "assault and battery", for some reason I thought it must refer to a car battery and I tried to comprehend why someone would pour salt on one.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- i used to think salt was made of sand— hibiscus
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon