When I was young, my mom was an accountant. Every quarter she'd stay at work until very late to "look for money that went missing in the books" I had always pictured my mom running around a library shaking out the pages in actual books, so the missing money would fall out.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! 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 always though as a kid that "To Let" signs were public conveniences with an I missing. Really.— Col
- 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
- 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
- I use to blame the aliens on my missing barbie dolls.— Lindsay