When I was little I was at a hardware store looking at cabinets. When I opened one, one of the henges broke off leaving the door hanging crooked. I was so scared that everytime the doorbell rang it would be the police coming to get me.
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I used to believe that serial killers were people who went around stabbing Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, and other breakfast cerials.
My mum told me that whenever I saw a police car\Ambulance\Fire Engine with sirens blaring shooting down the road, that they were 'just practising'. I dont think she wanted to expose me to the real world just yet. Thanks mum!
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I used to think that Serial killers were people who poisoned cheerios.
When I was a little kid, I used to believe that serial killers killed people with cereal. They would concoct such vile cereal creations (fruit loops with toe jam and boogers) that people would die from eating them.
When I was 12 years old, I used to think that a statutory rapist was a rapist who rapes a statue.
My mom and I used to play this game "stranger danger" and one of the questions was "What do you do if someone offers you a Marijuana cigarette?" Well since I knew that regular cigarettes got smaller when people put them in their mouths, I assumed that they bit off a bit of the end of it each time they put it in their mouths, so I responded with confidence: "DON'T EAT IT!!!"
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When I was little, I used to think that a serial killer was a killer who ate a lot of cereal. I wonder if I was the only one who thought that.
When I was little, I used to believe that when someone was "drinking and driving", that meant they could be drinking anything. Needless to say, I got very nervous when my mom opened a cola while driving.
i used to think that when you moved house that some policemen would come and put your house on wheels and then get a car to drive it to a new place.
When I was little, I used to think that a serial killer was a killer who ate a lot of cereal.
When california had the night stalker nad I spent the night at my friend, who had a one story yellow house, I thought he was going to come and get me.
When I was a kid I'd always enjoy watching television with my dad. One day we watched "Cops." That was probably a bad decision on my dad's part since I was about 5. On the show that day the police officers shoved a man on a couch and tried to get cuffs on him. I was wondering why they were doing this. My dad said they were arresting him. I heard that they were "resting" him. I pictured my mom putting me down for a nap like that. I was just shocked that these policemen were trying to get this man to rest in such a violent way. I don't think I trusted police officers for a few years of my childhood.
when i was a kid, I thought jaywalking meant the same thing as streaking. So my dad said he jaywalked (i don't know how it was brought up) and i was shocked and angry. he then said it wasnt that bad, telling me that mom,my grandparents, everybody did it. Eventually he figured out why i had reacted the way i did. LOL
Thankfully as a child, I had no concept of "assault" and a battery was what made things work. With the term "assault and battery", for some reason I thought it must refer to a car battery and I tried to comprehend why someone would pour salt on one.
I understood the concept of "ex" as in ex-girlfriend, but not as in ex-con (convict). I did know what a "con artist" was so when I combined my limited knowledge of the two, I thought an ex-con was not someone who was recently paroled from prison, but someone who used to lie an awful lot.
Because police officers were assigned to "protect people" and "uphold the law," I thought it was illegal for a police officer to take up smoking cigarettes because it was inherently dangerous to oneself.
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I used to think that cerial killers would kill the little people on the boxes so once I said (to myself) "not tony! Please don't hurt him!"
After a session in grade school where we learned all of the walking/traffic rules for safety, for the longest time I thought "jay-walking" meant walking across the street naked.
When I was very little I thought that there was a serial killer in England who would kill children. Reason? I thought that if you yelled into the vetalation (sp?) system loud enough, people in England could hear you and would answer back, but all they ever said was "bloody child" (My loving parents). The next year, we went to Britain for our summer holidays, and I was convinced my parents had made a deal with the killer. Did I mention the killer was named "Jack the Tripper" ? I got three's company and Jack the Ripper mixed up. (Don't ask me how I knew about the 1800's serial killer when I was 5.