When I was a kid, I thought that libraries got all their funding from overdue fines. We had a pretty lousy branch library, so I would hold onto books long after I'd read them so I'd have to pay an extra nickel or dime and maybe they'd be able to buy more books.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon