I thought that change was just the clerk giving you back the exact amount of money you'd handed over. I thought it was a ritual formality thing, and I never saw the point.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo
- When I was little I used to believe that there was a man sitting inside ATM machines giving you your money.— Kazza
- At one point, i thought that "Where the Sun Don't Shine" and "The Land of The Rising Sun" where the same thing— A. Brone E.
- I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley
- 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