When I was little I found a little bit of broken (clear) plastic that was shaped very roughly like a little diamond. While I was smart enough to realize that it had no real value, I still put it in a clear display box, placed prominently on my dresser in my room. I did this in the confident belief that if a robber broke into our home, he would take it believing it to be valuable, and possibly leave after grabbing it, thereby saving my mom's genuinely precious jewels.
The question of why a robber would believe it was a diamond when an 8-year old kid knew it was plastic was never an issue for me. Clearly, I was a genius, and robbers must be much dumber.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to say " The ghost is clear!" Instead of "The coast is clear"— Jake
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro
- I used to think that plastic surgery actually involved using plastic.
— JohnJ - I used to believe that plastic surgery was done with plastic knives.— Vicki J.
- I used to think that neil diamond was singing about the reverend blue jeansAnon
- I thought that kids' pee was yellow and adults' pee was clear.— Aretia