When I was little, I didn't know the difference between "cash" and "change". So I used to wonder, when people won money on game shows, how the contestants got thousands of dollars in quarters home.
A childhood belief about tv shows

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 think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- I used to belive that all TV shows were taped in my home city, thats why they were shown here.Anon
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to believe that Internet banking printed money out of the printer in our home like an ATM. Anon