SATURDAY, October 5, less than an hour after my Saturday CENTsus hit the innernets bemoaning a lack of coins for my Future Pennyillionaire fortune...I found a penny.
I remember it like it was last Saturday. Oh. It WAS. Right there on the floor of The Gas Station Chicken Store. Me wearing a pair of The Pony's old shoes, because I could.
It was a 2019, all shiny and face-down, reflecting artsy-fartsy-ly off the trim of the counter. Looks like the owners have put their two new clerks to work, spiffing up the place.
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TUESDAY, October 8, I discovered a DIME at Orb K. Sorry, no picture of it in its natural habitat. I had to hold my place in line, fervently hoping that somebody didn't walk over to look at the scratchers display and take my rightful dime! By the time I had my scratchers, I didn't have a hand free for photography. I didn't want to hold those scratchers in my mouth. And I didn't want to stuff them in an armpit. So I just snatched my dime and shuffled on out of there. Besides, does anybody really regret not seeing the unclean floor of Orb K this week? I think not.
There it is at home, though. Posing on the kitchen counter. A 2006, which I'd noted was face-down when I picked it up. Not a bad showing this week, scooping up 11 cents.
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Stopping the presses to add a late addition:
This 1975 penny was found face-down at the Backroads Casey's, at 1:53 p.m. on SATURDAY, October 12. I was unable to get a picture in the wild, as it was deep under the gum rack, and I had a close-waiter blocking me from backing up to get a shot. The close-waiter is probably scheduling a therapy appointment, after her exposure to my ample rumpus, as I scooted this penny out with the floppy toe of The Pony's old shoe, and picked it up. Here he is, chilling in the autumn sun on T-Hoe's console.
That makes it a 12-cent week for Val's Future Pennyillionaire fortune.
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2019 Running Total
Penny # 104, 105.
Dime # 18. (surpasses last year's dime total)
Nickel still at 8.
Quarter still at 4.
2018 TOTALS
Penny 131
Dime 17
Nickel 6
Quarter 1
2017 TOTALS (Started in March, 2017)
Penny 78
Dime 6
Nickel 0
Quarter 0
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Have you thought about what you are going to do when you reach that millionaire status? At this rate it won't be long, at 4% interest compounded...maybe a couple of hundred years.
ReplyDeleteNo, but I need to make a list. I don't want to spend it all in one place!
Delete12 cents is a decent haul for a week. Much better than my week where I found zero cents and no dollars either. Maybe you'll start finding more dimes, this is about the third one this year?
ReplyDeleteIt's my 18th dime this year. I seem to be finding them frequently over the past few months. Too bad you were shut out. Maybe your coin-finding slump will end soon.
DeleteGood for you!! I entered the laundry room with trepidation, as I saw that the trash can was over-flowing. Someone brings their laundry up in big black trash bags and then they stuff them into the trash can. I decided to use the bag on top to stuff all the crap falling on the floor into it. When I tugged at it, some wet discarded clothing fell our, along with two pennies! I thought of you, of course. Though tempted, I did not shake all of the trash onto the floor to search for more coins.
ReplyDeleteYou are braver than me! No trash can pennies can tempt Val! Not even a sure thing.
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