I live in Illinois, and I was 8 years old and in 3rd grade in 1998, when we had a gubernatorial election. We had a little mock election at school, and the night before, my dad sat me down to talk about the candidates for governor. Although our family is Democratic, my dad advised me not to "vote" for Glenn Poshard just because he was a Democrat, since he was in favor of legalizing assault weapons.
However, I didn't hear the "a" in "assault," so I thought he said "salt weapons." I literally spent the next four-or-so years of my life wondering what on earth a "salt weapon" was—I envisioned a machine gun that spewed out salt shakers, and somehow the salt was caustic enough to kill people.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - When I was a little kid I thought that salt was some form of an aged sugar.— Jodie
- When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene