I used to believe that writing a check simply showed the store that yes, you did have that amount of money in the bank and that was sufficient to buy something.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- i used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!— Karianne
- I used to believe that as long as there were checks in the checkbook, there was money in the bank.— Michelle
- I thought it was against the law to carry around a lot of money unless you were putting it in the bank.Anon
- I used to believe that a bank was a place where they give out money to peopleAnon
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo