I thought that cashiers gave people change because the people were too short on cash. (For example, with a $10 purchase, I thought that the customers the cashier $8 and the cashier gave the customer $2.)
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.— suzy
- When I was 6 I truly thought that if something was £50 and you gave them £30 you got the goods AND £20 changeAnon
- I used to believe that banks were owned by rich people who gave away their money.— Lyssa
- I used to belive that there were tiny people in vending machines that gave you your food.— Meah
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!— Armani