I once asked my parents to buy me something, and they said they couldnt afford it and they showed me how much money they had (a little pocket change)
I went to bed that night and cried myself to sleep, thinking that soon we'd be poor and living in the streets becuase we had no more money. It never occured to me that my dad going to work meant we'd get more.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.— suzy
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon
- I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.Anon
- I was convinced my cat was going to steal my money at night. Anon
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke