Excerpt from COPING WITH CASH
by Peter Corey
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Can you remember...
The first time you handled money? I'm not talking about that dime you shoved up your brother's nose, or even the dollar coin you swallowed.
I swallowed a dollar coin when I was little! My mum took me to the doctor, and the doctor said that I'd have to wait and it would pass through me. So every morning, my mum, being very careful with money, put me on a potty and checked to see if the money had turned up yet, but there was no change.
Probably the first time you handled money was at preschool, although it would have been plastic and smelled of spit-up. You probably thought: "This money is disgusting. I never want to do anything with it!" Little did you realise then that you would probably spend the rest of your life chasing after money and trying to hang on to it. But then, life is strange and cash is even stranger.
From Coping With Cash, copyright © 2000 by Peter Corey.
Illustrations © 2000 by Mike Phillips.
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