I told a kid once that when you grow up you have to pay all sorts of taxes, like taxes on youre house and that sort of stuff. Then I told him with a completely straight face that there was such thing as a potato tax, for every potato you ate you would have to pay 7 cents. And he actually believed me....
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- I used to believe that you get your taxes done at the taxidermist.— Krissy
- My dad once told me that every potato we had ever eaten was grown in his ear.— Shirley B.
- If you don't eat Potato Croquettes in under 1 minute they explode.— Sarah
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I thought rice was just another way to prepare a potato, like mashed or fries.— Me