Once my friend and I were eating lunch together in the school cafeteria, and I got a can of juice. It said ME 5 cents. Well my friend apparently thought that ME was the abbreviation for Michigan even though it doesn't contain an E. She said, "That's not fair, it costs 5 cents to get it in Michigan but it costs 50 cents (I can't remember the actually price at school) to get it in Connecticut and everywhere else?" I tried to correct her but she didn't listen.
Mind you this was in 6TH GRADE!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I was once told by a friend at school that if you sneeze you actually die for a split second.— Alex
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon