Shortly after I learned to read, I noticed all of these banners hanging in front of banks. They all advertised "Free Checking". However, I thought they all said "Free Chicken".
I was so confused as to why banks would hand out free chicken to their customers. My mom occasionally left us 3 kids in the car while she would run into the bank to make a quick deposit. I would get so mad, because I just knew that she was in there eating the free chicken and she never brought us any.
(she did, however, bring us dum-dum suckers)
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I believed that banks were places where anyone could go in and take some money for free. Anon
- When I first heard Matt Monro's song "Born Free," I thought he was singing "Porn Free."Anon
- When i was a tiny lad, I used to think drug free zones were places where you can get drugs for free— Spencer
- i used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!— Karianne
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG