In grade school we learned about the tax collectors in Jesus' day. I used to think that the people working at the toll booths on the highway were our tax collectors.
A childhood belief about characters

others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought the IRA was like the IRS and that Ireland was overrun by irate tax collectors.— jhager
- I used to believe that Automatic Toll Boths had underground room where people counted your money.— Dillon
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- When I was a child, I used to think that one day my brother and I would be in the same grade at school.— Alexis Yahir López
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon