I thought that when they said something like "The Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 1% on trading of 342 million shares" on the radio, that they were saying "chairs" instead of "shares".
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I thought that Tommy Lee (the singer) and Tommy Lee Jones(the actor) were the same exact person.— Glowworm
- I believe my mom had to pay like a million dollars for me to go to school— kelsorocksursocks
- when i was a child,i used to believe that a "million" is a big bag full of coins— Kafka
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- When I was a child, I used to believe that teachers never leave school and slept in the chairs.— Majo
- When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama