When I was a little girl we lived in what was then a country area. Looking at it now it is so close to our capital city that I have to laugh! Anyway, we went barefoot a lot, and I was the youngest of four. I clearly remember that if I stood on a rusty nail my father would give me a shiny new (Australian)penny to take my mind off it. I am now 65, and it is only recently that I have thought about it and realised that he must have cleaned up an old penny to make me feel good.Isn't that wonderful. What a great man he was!
A childhood belief about family
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
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona