Whenever my parents would see a cop in my small town, they would say, "There's John Law!" I thought that there was an actual cop in town with that name, since both of my parents have worked with the police and knew many cops. I didn't realize that it was a euphemism for the police until I was 20 YEARS OLD. We were in Hawaii and my parents said, "There's John Law!", and I felt like an idiot.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- As a child I used to think that Olivia Newton-John and Elton John were married.
Boy, I was way off.— Lisa - My sister thought (not more than one year ago, she is now 14) that John Doe was an actual person.— Brother to Natascha
- As a child, I thought that Olivia Newton-John was Elton John's wife and Juice Newton's sister.— Connie
- I thought that Olivia Newton John was a group, Olivia Newt and John. — Sam O.
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon