I used to think (back in the forties) that when my mother used her charge card at the local department store it meant that she didn't have to
pay. When I was very small, I thought that when a gas station attendant washed the windshield that he was putting in the gas.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- i used to want to be a tollbooth attendant because i thought they got to keep all the money.— adam j. sontag
- I thought a Debit card was actually called a Debt card.— Kilgore
- I thought that a "student visa" meant to use a credit card while travelling.Anon
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim
- I thought the 'dubbing mixer' on TV credits was the person in charge of stirring the make up for the actors.— Clive