the law

Arguing with my friend Chris in Primary School, he told me his dad (who was a Policeman at the time) would come into school and arrest me.

My dad was a farmer. I - for some bizarre reason - retorted with the idea that my dad would run Chris over with a steamroller.

Like everyone I was taught the Lord's Prayer when I was a kid. However, the line' lead us not into temptation' I misheard as 'lead us not into Thames Station'. I imagined a scary Victorian police station in a dark, foggy London Street. Same thing, I suppose.

My dad used to drive a lot with his job, and as a kid, I would go to work with him on a weekend.

I was always worried about him speeding, so he told me that the policemen let him drive fast because he had to go a really long way.

I believed him for years on that one.