My mother told me that it was against the law to cross busy streets until you were 12. One day I asked the D.A.R.E. officer that was giving a presentation to our 5th grade class if that was true. Needless to say, I was the laughing stock of Ms. Homburge's class for that whole year.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- When I was in preschool, the class bully told me that peas were actully cow boogers. Still won't eat peas.— Ren
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell