When I was younger, my mom told me that if i keep writing on myself with ink, that it was against the law and the ink police was going to come and take me away from her.... It got me to stop writing on myself...lol
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland