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My mother never got her licence until recently, when I was a child I thought my mum didn't drive because it was illegal for women to drive. I used to say it's not fair I wish I could drive and my parents just thought I meant I wished I was old enough to drive so never set me straight. Sometimes if I did notice a woman driving I would think she would get arrested.
Amy
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In elementary school, I sat in a presentation about drugs and alcohol. For the first time, I learned that sniffing markers was a form of inhalant. I had sniffed a marker before, and I secretly believed I was a hardcore drug addict and that it was only a matter of time before I spent my life in prison.
David
When I was younger I saw an ad on the TV warning against drinking and driving. For a while, I thought that "drink-driving" meant drinking alchohol while driving.
Noel
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When I was really young, I used to believe that the Speed Limit was actually called the Speed Lemon and I just thought that there was a lemon in the road that you couldn't drive across.
Kyle Shores
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When I was little, my mom told me it was illegal and dangerous to drink and drive. I believed that drinks included juice boxes so every time I was in the car drinking my juice box and a police car passed, i lowered my juice box so the police wouldn't see.
Liz
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My sister used to tell me the FBI warning at the beginning of movies meant that I couldn't get up at any time during the film. She kept this up until I was 11. I still don't get up as a force of habit now.
James
i used to believe that when i saw the signs "Speed Limit Radar Enforced" it meant that, at the police station there was a cop looking at a really big radar screen of the city, with blinking lights for each car and could tell which ones where speeding and would then use the radio to call someone out to stop you.
Bigdaddy
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When I was in elementary school, my mom would always complain about the large amount of cops on the roads at the end of the month. She always said that they were "getting their quota in"....I thought she was saying "quarter" and for the longest time I thought cops got paid a quarter for every person they pulled over.
Mary
When I was about 6, I used to believe that Robocop is the best policeman in the world and that he's existing for real.
MC
When I was about six years old, I noticed my dad was driving past a sign that said "Do not pass". I became very upset and was certain the police would arrest my dad because he passed the "Do not pass" sign.
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Years ago the little tagd attached to pillows, etc which said "Do not remove under penalty of law" did not include the words "except by consumer. When my older sister wanted my younger siblings and I to do something, the would coerce us by saying that is we didn't do what she wanted, she was going to rip the tag off a pillow and call the police and say we did it
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Until i was about 6, i used to believe that when the police gave you a ticket, it was a ticket to the movies!
mari
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When I was little and started crying hystericaly, my parents would tell me to stop or else the police would come.Because of this, I thought of the police as bad people and would be afraid when i saw one.
Tash
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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)!
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When I was four years old my aunt and uncle stayed at our house while my parents were on a camping trip. One afternoon they were driving my cousin and I who were acting up in the back seat. My uncle turned his head around and told me that he was going to take me to the police station and give me the electric chair. I couldn’t understand why my aunt thought that was funny. Nevertheless, for most of my early childhood I believed every police station had an electric chair.
JR
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As I constantly questioned authority when my parents told me that if I didn't buckle my seat belt in the car the police would write us a ticket.
I somehow came to believe that police officers had a device (which looked vaguely familiar to a gameboy) that they used to scan cars and it would tell them if a seat belt was unbuckled.
Until I was 9 I compulsively buckled all seat belts in the car, even when no one was sitting in that seat.
kay
I used to believe that if you took the tags off of pillows, mattresses, etc. that you would go to jail!! Ha, ha, ha. The funny thing is, I still do...and I'm 48. My dad was a cop...do ya think that may have been part of it?
lanalove60
When I was little I used to think the "Speed Limit" was called the "Speed Lemon" and if you drove too fast you would get pulled over and thrown in jail by a big glowing lemon shaped spaceship full of "police"- I also thought policemen were men with big lemon heads.. :p - I had an active imagination!
Brown
When I first became familiar as a child with the phrase "calling the law", which actually meant calling the police. I got the idea that "the law" referred to one particular government official.
Anita
When I was younger I would always put my seat belt on way before my mom would start the car. I thought the reason police officers had laptops in their cars was because they had a special software that could track cars with kids who didn't have their seatbelts on!
Lindsay
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