when I was a kid and saw a van drive past that were a firm of shop fitters - I always read it as shop lifters & wondered why the Police didn't go after them
(It still catches me out sometimes)
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- I used to believe it was illegal to shop at Goodwill unless you were poor.— Aretia
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- I used to think testers were short for testacles! So in the shop i used to say can i try a testacle!— Ro
- I use to believe that a stripmall was a place where people could shop nakedAnon