When I was young I liked those flattened penies. So I would put pennies on the railroad tracks and let the trains flatten them, but one time my mom caught me doing this and see told me that if I did that I might derail a train. It scared me so much that I never put a pennie on a track again.
A childhood belief about trains
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
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - I thought the underground railroad was actually a subway.— Greg
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it