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.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
I used to believe that the Lord's Prayer instructed us to lead a snot into temptation. — Susan- I used to htink that the Lord's prayer went "and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some email..."— Dyth
- Didn't Jesus say "And lead us not into Thames Station!"— Chris - Sheffield
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon