When I first started driving I always hid my cigarette when passing a police car. I didn't differentiate Mom and "the law"!
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- 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
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- I used to think that the police didn't know that we called them coppers behind their backs!— Chris
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave