I thought a highwayman was just someone who helps pave the road and stuff like that
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian
- i thought when you went road hunting for deer i thought you ran them over— nick
- I thought break dancing involved actually breaking stuff!— Sydle