When I was little, I wanted a toy and my mom said she didn't have the money for it. I said, "Write a check!", never considering that the checks had to take money from her bank account.
My mom still likes to tell that story to this day. Mothers sure know how to embarrass their kids.
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
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- i used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!— Karianne
- I thought it was against the law to carry around a lot of money unless you were putting it in the bank.Anon
- I used to believe that a bank was a place where they give out money to peopleAnon
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon