money

When I was seven, my parents took my brother and I on a trip. At the hotel we stayed in, there was this incredible fountain, and upon closer inspection, we saw the fountain had money at the bottom of it! Pennies, dimes, quarters! My brother and I thought we were rich!We reached into the fountain and started scooping up the money. It was then my mother told me that each coin was somebody's wish and if I took the coins their wishes wouldn't come true. So reluctantly, we put the money back in the water. I remember being surprised other people weren't trying to take the coins too. Maybe they already knew they were other people's wishes!

Cathy F.

I used to believe that if I buried money it would grow like a plant. I put a lot of my allowance in the ground just hoping for a money tree!
I wonder if it is still there...?

Sodi Sea

i used to think 1 million dollars was all the money in the world

Matt

I used to believe that money really did grow on trees, but grownups just didn't want us to know about it.

Mariah

The first time I got to pay at the gas station, my grandpa gave me a twenty dollar bill.
When I gave the money to the clerk, I stood there for a while waiting for money back.
I thought gas was only .87 cents, and for the life of me couldn't understand why the
clerk kept the whole thing, not to mention my grandpa laughing at me.

Dan F

I used to believe that I would be a millionaire

Dewey

I always heard that 4 quarters made up a dollar, so I thought if you laid 4 quarters end to end, they would just meld together and make a paper dollar.

Fettboy

My dad told me that "no money down" meant that if you dropped your money, the store would get to keep it, like as in finders-keepers.

Belle

Someone gave me a dollar when I was little, and I sat in the living room playing with it. I asked my ma if it was true that there were four quarters in a dollar, and she told me that I was correct.

I tore the dollar in half and tried to shake the quarters out, as if dollar bills were envelopes for quarters.

John O'Hara

I used to think that there was a 'little man' inside cash machines, who counted the money and pushed it out. When a machine was out of order, it was because 'the man was having his dinner, having a sleep'etc

Paula Nugent

remember the commercials with Phil Rizzuto for "the money store"? I thought it was a store that sold money at bargain prices.

Jimmy Mac

I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.

Matt

that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.

suzy

I thought that when you bought things with cash the shop assistant always gave you some back - didn't understand what change (i.e. the difference) was.

Kat