50 cents that means the world to me...

Mareesey · 05-11-2009, 09:53 PM

That 50 cents isn't worth 50 cents... But it used to be worth a dollar.

When I was 7 and my older brother 8 we found a dollar. Nothing special about it just a dollar. We both wanted it. Not to share it, not to spend it, not to collect it, just to claim it as our own. This dollar was found in an old bathroom in the upstairs of our house. That bathroom NEVER worked it was just used for storage.

My brother and I never got along very well and he was an Indian giver (thats what my mom called him). We fought and fought over that dollar bill for a good half hour when I had an amazing idea!!!! We could share it. I saw no harm in sharing a dollar because being 7 I'd already learned that if you split a dollar its 50 cents! So I took the dollar and ripped it in half I could feel the enthusiasm on my face. Smiling broadly I told my brother "there you go fifty cents for you and fifty cents for me". Immediately I handed him his half and he didn't look as pleased as I thought he'd be. He said "Great, just great. Now it's not worth anything!" And he told me it was illegal to ruin money like that. (I got worried but didn't believe him too much)

The other day I was talking to my mom about mailing me out the last of my coin collection she had there and I could hear my brother in the background going on about a dollar. He took the phone and blurted out I'm going to send you my half... Thats when I had to break it to him that the 2 moves I made from our old house to the new one they live in all the way to my apartment in cali I don't know what happened to my half. Though he was sad I don't have the half of our worthless dollar he was happy enough that I remembered the fight itself

. Of all the coins I have I'd have to say this 50 cents is the best 50 cents I'll ever own. Even when I do find my half this one means the most 16 years he kept this dollar.

Sorry if this is in the wrong spot. I just wanted to post about my favorite collectable

**TheNoost** · 05-11-2009, 11:58 PM

Cool story. Hope you find the other half!

HandsomeToad · 05-12-2009, 12:16 AM

If you do find the other half, send it to your brother and tell him to hold it for another 16 years and then the 2 of you have to get together to spend it together, like you should have 32 years ago (thinking futuristic).

As we get older, our rifts from youth are what we have to laugh about so you two will have a lot to laugh about in 16 years.

Ribbit

Ps: The "flip" side of this is, you will be 16 years late in giving him the other half, which will pee him off.