When I was little I used to like to wander away in the store so my mom told me that a man with a sack was going to come and get me if I left her sight. Well in Spanish (the language she spoke to me in) the word for sack is the same as the word for coat. So for a long time I was terrified of any man wearing a coat!
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to believe getting the sack involved being put into a cloth sack.— Wangchuk
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.
- I used to believe that a stranger was a man with an X on his coat— Gabe
- I used to believe that to speak Spanish all you had to do was a an "o" to the end of each word. — !!.-ariel-.!!
- I used to believe that "foofa" was the F-word in Spanish.Anon
- When I was a wee one I believed dogs were either black or white underneath thier coat....It was the 60's.— maddog