When I was really young, like 4 yrs, there was a lot of talk about child abductors, and I must have seen things on TV about poison candy. Also, my parents always used to say to me that I wasn't allowed to talk to strangers. All this really impressed me. On my fifth birthday we had been to a theme park, and on the bus home, an elderly woman tried to offer me a roll of candy, which I, of course stubbornly refused to accept, saying that I couldn't take candy from strangers because it was poisoned, and this woman was going to abduct me.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to think that clouds were cotton candy. Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe clouds were cotton candy.— GloriousJin
- I used to believe when I was young that Poland was made entirely of candy.— Jenn
- When I was little my parents would tell me if I ate candy before noon I would get worms.— Jenny