1, 2, 3, 4. People Don't Drop QUARTERS Any More!

SATURDAY, December 12, I found a surprise penny at the liquor store. Please give Val props for her eagle eye! Did YOU see it right away? This one was well-camouflaged.

 

Old Abe is just above the center of the photo, in a line that would point to the cigarette butt in the hole at the 1:00 position. Don't go thinkin' that I missed a nickel or a quarter. That's a spot of bird poop! 

 

I tell you, these pennies are meant JUST FOR ME! There I am, parked at the end (where nobody can pull in too close to T-Hoe!), and standing where I just slid out of the driver's seat. I think my ample rumpus was still leaning against the side of the seat when I took the picture. That penny caught my eye before I even righted myself to close the door.

 

It was a 1984 penny, heads up, WATCHING ME! When I told The Pony the date, he said, "Well, isn't THAT prophetic!" Heh, heh. The Pony has such a droll sense of humor.

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TUESDAY, December 15, I returned to the scene of the maniac who parked too close to me. No maniac this time. When I started up the sidewalk to enter the Backroads Casey's, 

 

I saw not only the trash that had been removed from the receptacle, but a PENNY waiting for me! It's there! You have to have VAL eyes to sniff it out.

 

It was a face-down 1995 penny, awaiting a ride to my New Future Pennyillionaire Fortune Goblet. I pocketed that little treasure, and went inside. When I came out, I had already hoisted myself up onto T-Hoe's running board when I thought I saw something on the ground.

I DID! I eased back down to the pavement, and snapped the picture. Again, you can see that finding these pennies is not as easy as some might think. You can easily be fooled by parking lot stains! Go to the exact center of the picture, then straight up. The penny is almost against the yellow curb.

 

This was a face-down 1994 penny. I don't know how I missed it walking in. All those spots, I guess. The vantage point and reflection from T-Hoe's running board saved it.

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THURSDAY, December 17, saw me at the Sis-Town Casey's, paying for T-Hoe's gas, and picking up some scratchers to give as Christmas gifts. I'll be darned if I didn't see a penny to my left, at the vacant register. I had plans to get a picture and that penny when my transaction was finished. But NO! My guy was so slow that another clerk came out, and opened that register! But the customer was also an employee. That meant chit-chat. 

By the time she was done, there was a line behind me. I did not feel comfortable taking up time in front of that register to get a picture and a penny. I DID feel comfortable enough to ample-rumpusize those poor line-waiters while I bent over to pick up my rightful penny. I had other errands, and didn't get a chance to take its picture until I was over at the School-Turn Casey's, waiting for a Red Bull man to wheel in his dolly.

There it is, the former heads-up 2015 penny, posed on my St. Louis Blues mask. Oh, don't think I WEAR it! My penny is not getting germy. That's my pocket mask. I carry it in, just in case somebody asks me to put it on. Which has NEVER happened! The mask I wear is my Kansas City Chiefs. And that only at the casino and doctor's office.

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I'm closing in on my 2019 penny total! Will I make it? So close, but yet so far! I've given up on the quarters this year. This week I found 4 PENNIES, for a total of 4 CENTS added to my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune.

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2020 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny       # 127, 128, 129, 130.
Dime         still at 25.
Nickel       still at 10.
Quarter    still at 1.

2019 TOTALS
Penny     134
Dime        20
Nickel        8
Quarter      5
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