Quote Originally Posted by crappiepappy View Post
When I was a "kid", I could buy some tasty treats for a penny :p

Actually, I never even lived close to a railroad track until I was around 11 or 12 years old ... and I wasn't allowed off my street until I was in my teens. Lived with my Grandparents from 5th grade until I came home from the Army
I heard about putting coins on a railroad track, and trains running over them & flattening them out (which my homies & I thought would be "cool") ... but, I also heard rumors that it "could" cause the train to derail :p so I never gave it a second thought.

... cp
When I was a kid penny candy was a penny too!... and some were 2 for a penny! A little 6 oz. bottle of Coke was 6 cents and the machine would only take a nickel and a penny and wouldn't make change!

My uncle took me and my 2 brothers down to the train tracks and gave us 5 pennies each to put on the RR tracks, the we waited for the 1:11 (the time the train passed by). The train came by and rolled them out real nice and thin, we had to do some lookin' for some of them... but we found them all. Thank goodness it didn't derail the train!!!:D I wish I still had those pennies, but I will always have the memory!

I think dimes would make better spoons, but you can buy Colorado and willow leaf blades for about the same price and they'll work even better!