My younger brother once asked me what the building on the nickel was (Monticello)...I told him it was the "Tail Building". He went to school and told everyone, the teacher corrected him and the kids laughed.
He still reminds me of this...and I still apologize profusely.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon