My Dad used to do a little trick where he'd take a penny and cup it between his hands, let me blow on his fingers, and then shake his hands and the penny would disappear! WOW! And then he'd retrieve it from my ear! DOUBLE WOW!
I was so enamored of this trick that I pestered him all the time to perform it. Finally he said it only worked with 1943 pennies, and he didn't have one on him today... but if I had one he'd do it.
Of course, 1943 pennies were made of steel-coated zinc (copper was needed for the war effort) and are really rare in circulation. But I didn't know that, I'd just scamper off to rifle through my piggy bank for twenty minutes, unintentionally leaving my dad in peace.
A childhood belief about magic tricks
others believed things like this
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- 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 cheerleaders didn't have hands, just pom-poms where they should be!Anon
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- i usedto belive that if you ate a paperclip you would be like the man of steel. um....... it didn`t go well.— rachel a.k.a. SUPERGIRL