Well when I was a little kid, the coin slot on a parking meter looked like the one on a slot machone to me. So I thought that people putting money in a slot machine were playing for time, never knowing how much time each coin would buy them.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- I used to believe that the bigger the coin was, the more it was worth.— Benjamin
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!— Armani
- 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 my bedroom closet was actually a time machine.— Carrie