The Chinese restaurant my parents took me to had a Styrofoam cup that sat on the counter and had "Tips appreciated" written on it. I thought you were supposed to write cooking tips on your receipt (if you were a good cook) and throw them in the cup so their chefs could learn how to cook better.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg
- I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- I thought my parents had written "Don't Worry, Be Happy".Anon
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon