In the parking lot of the shopping mall once, my mother and I were talking and my younger sisters (aged 2 and 3 at the time) were in the backseat complaining loudly that they wanted to leave. So my mother told them that if they didn't behave those people coming out of the mall, the *mall people* were going to come and take them away.
It became very easy from that point on to discipline my little sisses. We would just tell them, "Don't make me call the mall people!" This did, however, cause them to be afraid of shopping malls for many years.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada. — Adam
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was younger - I used to believe my stomach rumbling was little people in there talking to me.Anon