I used to believe that if you swallowed a penny, it would make you small enough to crawl into the back of the TV, then you'd be on TV. I never swallowed a penny, but I did suck one down my windpipe while trying to 'shrink'.
A childhood belief about money

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
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place— Mike
- i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back— cope
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon