When I was little (around 4 or 5) I assumed that when you became an adult (which I reasoned to be around age 14), you automatically got a paycheck in the mail every few days. Work was just something adults did to fill the time. I wondered who sent the paychecks out, and guessed that it was probably the president and that's why he was so important. Then I wondered why he gave some people more money than other people and how he picked who got to be rich. I figured people who were nice to him and wrote him letters got more money, so I started writing letters to Ronald Reagan (who I also thought was Ronald McDonald, just without clown make-up) asking him to give my mom more money so we could have a helicopter and a pony. I used Scooby-Doo and Hello Kitty stickers as postage, so I'm fairly sure they never made it to the White House.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!— JB
- I used to believe that banks were owned by rich people who gave away their money.— Lyssa
- I used to believe that a bank was a place where they give out money to peopleAnon
- that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.— suzy
- I used to think that Margeret Thatcher was married to Ronald Reagan, because they were always on tv together!— Nat
- I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.Anon