I remember as a kid I was totally confused by the trays they somtimes had a stores that had money in them and said "give a penny, take a penny". I thought it meant you should put a penny in it and then take another one out and I didn't get the point of it.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- As a kid, I thought "No Outlet" signs meant the houses past that point didn't have any electrical outlets.— Julie
- 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 used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley