In kindergarten, it was really cool to ride the school bus without a seatbelt on. Naturally I never wore a seatbelt, unless we happened to pass a police officer, in which case I put it on as fast as possible. It took me YEARS to realize that even if five-year-olds could be thrown in jail for not wearing a seatbelt, there was no possible way he could see my lap from outside the bus.
Oddly enough, almost all the kids in my neighborhood thought the same thing.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you didn't put on your seatbelt, you WOULD crash.— Mer
- i used to believe that if your seatbelt was un-done the car wouldn't move or work at allAnon
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- When I was nine, I thought two eleven-year-olds could get married.Anon
- my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail. — tg in blue
- I used to think 9 year olds were really old.— Danielle