When I was about nine, I heard someone saying that they spent all afternoon balancing their checkbook. I thought that it meant they *literally* balanced their checkbook. I imagined people trying to keep their checkbooks balanced on the tip of their finger, and they kept it up there the entire afternoon. Those people must have been really bored!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that as long as there were checks in the checkbook, there was money in the bank.— Michelle
- That "This morning" was "The Smorning"
And "This afternoon" was "The Safternoon"
Yeah....Anon - I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!— Bella
- I used to think that "mourning doves" were called afternoon doves starting at noon!
— Megaroo - I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy