I never realized that there was a difference between silver (those minted before 1964 were made entirely of silver) dimes and quarters and "normal" dimes and quarters (the copper sandwich). As a result, I used to raid my mother's stash of silver coins to buy ice cream from the ice cream man!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I thought the Civil War was the Silver War.— Vicki J.
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea
- I used to beleive that ice cream is made up of only ice and cream on top— Umme Hani
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon