When I first heard of "The Five Families" of New York when my parents were watching the news, I thought a crime family was a literal family like a mom, dad, and kids, who all committed crimes together.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I used to believe that our family was the only family that farted.— Teri
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim