In Kindergarten, I used to believe that when you "borrowed" money, you had to pay back the same coins or bills you borrowed. In the 1960's, milk at school cost a nickel. Sometimes the teacher would suggest that a student who forgot his or her milk money "borrow" a nickel from someone else. But if the nickel went to the cafeteria to pay for the milk, how could you pay the same nickel back to the person you borrowed it from?
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I used to believe I could milk dogs like the cows. This was because I saw a nurse milk his cow.— Laurent and Alexis, French students in eighth grade
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon