I used to believe that the popular phrase 'the buck stops here' was literally a dollar bill being passed from one person to another-the person who had the notion to place 'the buck stops here' sign was the one who got to keep the money.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I bbelived that the process of "making money" was taking a dollar bill and ironig it.Anon
- In old west lore, Billy the Kid was called 'buck toothed'. I thought this was because he sucked his thumb. — Monty
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I used to think that when the power goes out, the water also stops working.Anon
- Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."— Jager
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon