Back when my family got our first VCR, I used to think the police or FBI could spy on everyone, everywhere, 24 hours a day, and even if you were just making a copy of a movie on video tape, they could immediately track you down and come after you.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson