I was 6 in 1974. I thought President Nixon was in trouble for stealings scotch tape. I kept imagining him climbing up my parents' fire escape and looking for scotch tape in my parents' room.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix
- My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis. — sarah c
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon