I remember one time when my mother and I were in a shop. I really wanted a pack of chewing gum, but my mother wouldn't give me one. The next thing I remember was me and my mother walking at the street, and suddenly about six packs of chewing gum fell out of my pockets ... My mother took me back to the shop and had me give them back to the lady, who looked very angry and told me that she maybe had to call the police and tell them to come and get me. I got really scared, and for many weeks later I imagined that a policeman would walk up to our house and arrest me. (I have never stolen anything after this, however.)
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon