When I first heard the term "Yardie", I thought the name derived from the fact that they ran their criminal business from their front yard.
This would have been perfectly understandable if I was 8 or 9, but I was about 18.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- Until I was about 11 or 12 I thought that "prostitute" referred to a female criminal.Anon
- I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- Me and my sister used to dig holes in the yard because we thought we could dig to china.— Savannah
- I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon