When I was about 4 or 5, I was grocery shopping with my Mom, we were at the register putting the groceries on the "conveyor belt" and I noticed that my mom kept grouping the items she put up there in order, like all the frozen juices together, the tin can stuff in a group, the fruit together, the meat all together... I asked her why she was doing that and the CASHIER told me that if we DIDN'T group the foods together like that, the police would come and arrest us --- I believed her of course, and to this day I think about it EVERY SINGLE TIME I put my groceries up on the conveyor (with the items grouped PROPERLY, of course)!
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- When I was four I saw a group of nuns and told my grandma...look there's a bunch of brides with raincoats on.Anon
- I used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly
- When I was a little kid i thought cattle meant a group of cats— It's a group of cows and bulls!