When I was 7, on family road trips, we would stop in a town called Wallace, to fuel-up and get ice-cream. Once I overheard my parents comment about the prostitutes in Wallace. I thought by "prostitute" they meant "prosecutor", and my vision of a prosecutor was a very large man with black pants, muscular chest, a drooping black head mask, and a giant curved axe for cutting heads off. A cartoon executioner, in other words. I thought Wallace must be full of them. Why hadn't I ever seen them? That's probably for the best!
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a prostitute was like a prosecutor.— Not As Innocent Anymore
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K