I'm Getting a Cents of Feast of Famine

Yes, it's famine right now in the Future Pennyillionaire quest. The good news is...at least I found TWO pennies this week. That makes two pennies since March 30th! That's only 1/7 of a penny per day! Oh, how I remember when Backroads was virtually flowing with pennies. Ladybugs sailed the indoor skies! Ah...those were the salad days. Or the SLAW days.

It's been a long dry spell. I didn't find my first recent penny until Wednesday, April 11. I had stopped by the dead-mouse-smelling post office to pick up a small flat rate box for Hick.

If I hadn't parked like an entitled jackass, and if I hadn't been putting that box in from the passenger side...I never would have found this one. Yes, I'm parked that far away from the curb! I ain't proud. There was a guy on a motorcycle in the space behind that one, and T-Hoe's backup beeper doesn't work, so I pulled in nose first, and this is evidence of why I shouldn't do that again.

This was a 1991. He was so skinned up that the 1991 is my best estimate. I'm pretty sure of the 99 part in the middle, and certain of the 1 in the front, because this isn't the year 2991. The last 1 is by a process of elimination, not seeing any curves, or a sticking-out part like from a 4 or 7. Face down, of course.
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Then next penny was a pleasant surprise at Orb K on Friday, THE 13TH. I'd just climbed out of T-Hoe, and a little red car was acting like it wanted to park where I was standing with the door open. Even though the next actual parking space was across a five-foot wide yellow-striped handicap walkway.

I didn't budge, though, because I was trying to get this picture with the sun shining on my phone, and in fact my camera stopped working. So I only have this cropped version of a bad photo. You'll have to look close, but the penny is in that U shape of light by my head shadow. Right about in the middle of that U.

This was a 2005. Face up, though you can't tell from that angle, after my massive body eclipsed the sun. I snatched it up before the red-car guy could get out. Just in case he thought I'd found a treasure and was going to claim-jump me.
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In old news, last Saturday, at the casino, I found a LOT of pennies, just waiting to pay me in a Miss Kitty slot machine on the Wonder 4 Wheel.

I've never won this jackpot before! It was in the middle of counting up my win when I snapped the picture. The jackpot was $208.25. Not a great fortune, but better than playing out the rest of my $3.60 and getting nothing! The jackpot resets to $200, so this was not a great feat.

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For 2018: Penny #30, 31.
For 2018: Dimes still at  # 8.
For 2018: Nickels still at #2.

Since 2017 (the beginning), this was Penny #108, 109.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this was still Dime #14.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this was still Nickel #2.
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