Val does not believe in coincidences. Things happen for a reason. You may not understand or agree with the reason, but everything you do weaves a specific thread into your rich tapestry of life.
The Future Pennyillionaire Fortune was experiencing a week of famine, after last week's feast. I had not found a single cent all week. Friday morning, The Pony gave me my usual wake-up call.
"Mom. It's 11:00. Time to get up."
"Okay. I'm working on it."
"Oh, Mom. You must have dropped a dime out of your pocket. There was one laying on the floor behind the couch. It was face up. I picked it up. See?"
"I never have a dime in my pocket! I didn't see anything on the floor when I came up to bed at 7:00. Wait! You picked it up? NO! Put it back! I need a picture! It's my first coin this week!"
It was definitely a dime! Put back into its natural habitat by The Pony. HOW did I miss that?
It was a heads-up 1999 dime resting on my carpet behind the short couch. Even The Pony said he didn't see it on his trip to wake me. Not until he
half-turned around at the bedroom door, just prior to speaking. That's
when he picked it up.
Here's the thing. I NEVER have a dime in my pocket. I don't carry change in my pants. If I find a coin in town, I put it in my shirt pocket. More than one will go in my pants. But I take them out at the kitchen counter when I get home, and look at the dates with my magnifying glass that I keep there.
I fell asleep in my OPC (Old People Chair) in the wee hours of Thursday night / Friday morning, watching Cagney & Lacey. It's a good series for insomniacs, of which I am not. Anyhoo... that episode where they were looking for stolen uranium was probably the worst one of the series. My heated chair was SO comfy. I didn't wake up until 7:00. By that time, Hick had already left for his Storage Unit Store. I didn't see any dime as I walked behind the couch on the way to bed. It WAS daylight already.
It's possible that Hick might have dropped the dime as he left, and I didn't see it on my way to bed. Logically, how else could it get there? But how would he drop a single dime? If he had a hole in his pocket, I would have found a trail of dimes and nickels. He saves his pennies every night in a giant red plastic Coke bottle bank, and his quarters in a jar on the dresser. I haven't found a dime in the house since way back when my dad died, and we found them all over the house for about two weeks.
Oh. Did I forget to mention... I stopped by the cemetery on the way home Thursday afternoon? Just for a short (one-sided) chat with Mom and Dad.
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That's ONE COIN this week, a DIME, for a total of 10 CENTS toward Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune!
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2021 RUNNING TOTAL
Penny still at 7.
Dime # 1.
Nickel still at 0.
Quarter still at 0.
2020 TOTALS
Penny 134
Dime 25
Nickel 10
Quarter 1
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Penny still at 7.
Dime # 1.
Nickel still at 0.
Quarter still at 0.
2020 TOTALS
Penny 134
Dime 25
Nickel 10
Quarter 1
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Dimes are okay, we have a coin collection we keep by the front door. One year 35 years ago, our coin jar paid for our kids' Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThere are pennies there as well. We keep change in the coin holder in the car. McD gets plenty of change when we drive through.
Your coin collection is like finding FREE MONEY! It adds up faster than people imagine.
DeleteMy coin holder in the car goes for my daily 44 oz Diet Coke, so I don't really accumulate change. In and out. Sometimes it runs low, so I leave odd amounts of change on my casino cash-out tickets, and put the coins in T-Hoe's change cup.
It's possible the dime was caught in the back of the chair seat and only made its way out after you'd spoken with your dad, he probably sent you that as a thank you for chatting.
ReplyDeleteThat dime didn't come out of thin air, so it had to be from Hick's pocket, or Hick's pocket by way of the chair. The timing is what makes me think I was meant to get that dime right then.
DeleteOf all the weeks and months and non-cemetery visiting days it could have showed up, it appeared RIGHT THEN!
Oh yes, you know I am a believer. Maybe you could get wealthy making more frequent visits???
ReplyDeleteI stop by once a week on my way to the bank. Since the price of gas went up, my expenses for extra trips would negate my profits!
DeleteI still find cons in the laundry room, which seems to be a very popular place here. Maybe I should clean more often ...
ReplyDeletePardon me for giggling. I KNOW you meant to type COINS, but it came out CONS, and the thought of cons in your laundry room, partying it up, making it need to be cleaned, just tickled my funny bone!
DeleteWhen we first moved here, HeWho was all about adding an electric wall heater to the laundry room. I opposed this idea. I just figured I might wake up one day and venture out to find homeless people staking a claim to my laundry room. And there was that time when an escaped con was staking out my park looking for a place to hide.
DeletePardon my political incorrectness, but the problem with homeless people is that once they get in, it becomes THEIR HOME, and you can't get them out without a lengthy court battle. You can't change a lock, you can't take off the door, and you'd better not take out the wall heater that keeps them toasty warm on your dime!
DeleteYou'd think an escaped con would get the NOT-HEAVEN out of Dodge! Not lurk around hiding like he doesn't smell. It's hard to hide from a tracking dog.
The guy whose house is closest to our prison (the ERDCC) leaves his car unlocked, with the keys in it, hoping an escapee will not come to the house. He says he is tempted to leave some cash in it, too!