The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuel
A childhood belief about buses

others believed things like this
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- that if you rip a dollar coins come outAnon
- If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!— Helen, Cumbria
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- when i was a child,i used to believe that a "million" is a big bag full of coins— Kafka