Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune week was off to a slow start this week! Not a coin in sight until WEDNESDAY, January 27. I wasn't expecting to find a coin, but the casino thought otherwise. As I got up from my last slot at 3:14, to meet Hick up front at 3:15... I almost stumbled over (not the crazy carpet pattern) a PENNY!
Of course I had to stop for a photo-op. I also took a close-up, but it was blurry. My phone doesn't like to zoom in. It was a heads-up 2019 penny, lolling around where it had no business, not by a cash machine, not where you could insert a penny into anything. I doubt a drinker was tipping a server with change, or taking coins back after a purchase. They're GAMBLERS, by cracky! Not penny-pinchers.
As I took a step, dropping that one in my shirt pocket, I saw ANOTHER PENNY, hidden behind the stool leg.
A 1994, heads-up. It's always good to leave the casino with some money in your pocket! This penny didn't take a good close-up, either.
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THURSDAY, January 28, I took a trip to Sis-Town to mail Genius's letter at the main post office. I stopped by the School-Turn Casey's to get some $3 scratchers to tuck into the envelope. Lucky for me, there was a coin waiting. Sadly, I could not get a picture. It was way under the hanging bagged snacks in front of the register, and there were three people waiting behind me. So I didn't tarry to take a photo.
I DID scoot that coin out with my shoe-toe, and display my ample rumpus to the waiting crowd, to retrieve my rightful coin.
It was a QUARTER!!! A face-down 2015 North Carolina quarter. I only found ONE quarter in the whole year of 2020! This was a momentous occasion! I hope it was an omen that Genius's tickets will be winners. Here it is, safely back in T-Hoe, where no alley-dwelling villain could attempt to snatch it away like Charlie Bucket's Golden Ticket.
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That's 3 COINS this week, for a total of 27 CENTS!
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2021 RUNNING TOTAL
Penny # 8, 9.
Dime still at 1.
Nickel still at 0.
Quarter # 1.
2020 TOTALS
Penny 134
Dime 25
Nickel 10
Quarter 1
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Penny # 8, 9.
Dime still at 1.
Nickel still at 0.
Quarter # 1.
2020 TOTALS
Penny 134
Dime 25
Nickel 10
Quarter 1
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Maybe it is a sign that you will do well in penny finding this year.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. At least the pressure to find quarters is off. I've already tied last year's record!
DeleteThat's a very pretty quarter, I like the design very much.
ReplyDeleteThanks! (Said Val, as if she designed it and did the engraving herself.)
DeleteThat is some very crazy carpet I am surprised you could find anything on it, but that is why they chose it right?
ReplyDeleteI think they chose the pattern to disguise stains, and keep you discombobulated so you keep wandering around through the slots, unable to establish a clear path to the front of the casino to leave.
DeleteThe carpet would make me dizzy! Some poor soul lost all there money at the slots and walked away sadly thinking, "Well, at least I have two pennies in my pocket." Only to find the hole in the pocket when they got home ....
ReplyDeleteOh, no! I hope I didn't get some loser's LUCKY pennies!
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