DOLLARS to No-Guts, Val Will Shun Paper Currency

Quite a week in Future Pennyillionaireville!

SATURDAY, May 22, Even Steven played a little joke, giving me one last penny before the week was technically over, but after the weekly penny report had already published.

 

Hard to miss, right there in the open, on the way to the people-chute for waiting in line.

 

It was a face down 2021, all sparkly and pretty as a picture not taken by Val! My first 2021 of the year.

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SUNDAY, May 23, as I was getting ready to leave for the casino... I found a surprise on the bathroom floor:

 

 

It was a heads-up 2007 penny, obviously meant for ME. But wait! It gets better. I picked up that penny and laid it on the bathroom sink, and stepped into the walk-in closet to get my gambling uniform. Meaning my plaid shirt that doesn't show food stains as bad as a plain shirt.

 

 

It didn't photograph very well in the dark confined of the closet, but it was a face-down 2001 Rhode Island quarter. I left the bathroom two coins and 26 cents richer than when I entered, and told Hick:

"I see you've left me some coins on the bathroom floor."

"I didn't leave no coins. Unless I've got a hole in my pants pocket." He went to look, and did not. But The Pony chimed in:

"I THOUGHT I heard a coin hit the floor when I took off my shorts before my bath. But it wasn't worth it to look and see. So those are my coins, if Dad says he didn't lose any."

"Too bad! They're MINE NOW! It was worth it for ME to find them and pick them up."

Too bad I was mean to The Pony, and shame on Even Steven for letting me get away with it. As you will see after the next penny...

 

At the casino, there was another miraculous find concerning a bathroom. When I came back from the bathroom as we sat down for our casino lunch, a little friend was waiting for me:

 

Under MY chair. Nobody else's.

It was a face-down 2019. I was pretty happy with the day's take (and by that I am now talking about the three coins I'd found so far. SO FAR...

I was in a hurry to cash out and stop by the bathroom before Hick got mad for me being one minute late. I passed The Pony on my way to the front, and told him to inform Hick I would be right there. He proceeded to cash out. When I climbed into A-Cad, The Pony said from the back seat:

"Oh, Mom. I found this on the floor at the cash-out machine, so I picked it up for you. It was face up."

 

It was a 1974. I don't know how I missed it, but it was obviously meant for ME to find. Otherwise, my agent The Pony would not have ended up with it. He's not a penny-seeker.

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TUESDAY, May 25, I let one get away. On purpose! It was a DOLLAR on the floor of the Liquor Store, right by the counter. I picked it up and handed it to the clerk. She was the polite one who calls me "Hon." For all I know, she counted it as her tip. But you know my views on dollars. They don't fit into my ice cream dish penny goblet. It seems like stealing to take paper money.

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That makes 5 COINS and 29 CENTS this week towards my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune. And a dollar that got away.

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2021 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny       # 48, 49, 50, 51.
Dime         still at 4.
Nickel       still at 1.
Quarter    # 3.

2020 TOTALS
Penny     134
Dime        25
Nickel      10
Quarter      1
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