Me and my cousins used to watch Law and Order a lot, and often times people would get convicted for assault and battery. Well, I knew what assault was, and I knew what it meant to be battered, but it never really clicked that "battery" meant the act of battering someone. So I just thought they were talking about batteries, like AA, AAA, and so on.
I'm really glad I never asked anyone about that.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon