Back when vending machines sold a cup of soda for a penny, I thought that if you inserted a copper penny, it would always give you Coca-Cola. If you inserted a war-time zinc penny, it always gave you a grape soda. Whenever I wanted a grape soda, I would ask my older sister to put in an "old black penny".
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I thought there was a legal drinking age for soda (I had always been told that soda was not for children).— Dial Zero
- 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
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to belive that if you drank soda pop and ate pop rocks at the same time, your head would blow up. — erin
- I thought that soda was also called "pop" because if you drink too much of it, you'd explodeAnon