I believed (Until I was 11) that gas prices were just what the sign said. Maybe 2, 3 dollars to fill up the tank. Then my parents started to complain about the rising gas prices. I was just like "Oh come on! Its only 3 dollars!". Then they explained the philosophy of "money per gallon..."
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I believe my mom had to pay like a million dollars for me to go to school— kelsorocksursocks
- I used to think that the TV show "Shark Tank" involved actual sharks in a tank.Anon
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned
- After seeing Thomas the Tank Engine, I believed that all the locomotives in the world had a face.— Joe
- When I was a child I used to believe that the steam rising from my food were ghosts. Anon
- 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.