I grew up in a very small town in Illinois. When my parents took me to Peoria (population about 150,000), I saw my first motorcycle police officer. His motorcycle was beautiful -- low-slung and white, with shining white saddlebags across the back. I just KNEW they contained ice cream.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- A motorcycle was started by jumping up and down and bouncing on the seat.Anon
- I used to believe that the solid double yellow lines on highways were the motorcycle lane.— jeech
- I used to think that the song "Just like white winged dove" by Stevie Nicks was "Just like the white window" — Julia
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that— sparrow