Saturday, April 14, 2018

I'm Getting a Cents of Feast of Famine

Yes, it's famine right now in the Future Pennyillionaire quest. The good news is...at least I found TWO pennies this week. That makes two pennies since March 30th! That's only 1/7 of a penny per day! Oh, how I remember when Backroads was virtually flowing with pennies. Ladybugs sailed the indoor skies! Ah...those were the salad days. Or the SLAW days.

It's been a long dry spell. I didn't find my first recent penny until Wednesday, April 11. I had stopped by the dead-mouse-smelling post office to pick up a small flat rate box for Hick.


If I hadn't parked like an entitled jackass, and if I hadn't been putting that box in from the passenger side...I never would have found this one. Yes, I'm parked that far away from the curb! I ain't proud. There was a guy on a motorcycle in the space behind that one, and T-Hoe's backup beeper doesn't work, so I pulled in nose first, and this is evidence of why I shouldn't do that again.


This was a 1991. He was so skinned up that the 1991 is my best estimate. I'm pretty sure of the 99 part in the middle, and certain of the 1 in the front, because this isn't the year 2991. The last 1 is by a process of elimination, not seeing any curves, or a sticking-out part like from a 4 or 7. Face down, of course.
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Then next penny was a pleasant surprise at Orb K on Friday, THE 13TH. I'd just climbed out of T-Hoe, and a little red car was acting like it wanted to park where I was standing with the door open. Even though the next actual parking space was across a five-foot wide yellow-striped handicap walkway.


I didn't budge, though, because I was trying to get this picture with the sun shining on my phone, and in fact my camera stopped working. So I only have this cropped version of a bad photo. You'll have to look close, but the penny is in that U shape of light by my head shadow. Right about in the middle of that U.


This was a 2005. Face up, though you can't tell from that angle, after my massive body eclipsed the sun. I snatched it up before the red-car guy could get out. Just in case he thought I'd found a treasure and was going to claim-jump me.
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In old news, last Saturday, at the casino, I found a LOT of pennies, just waiting to pay me in a Miss Kitty slot machine on the Wonder 4 Wheel.


I've never won this jackpot before! It was in the middle of counting up my win when I snapped the picture. The jackpot was $208.25. Not a great fortune, but better than playing out the rest of my $3.60 and getting nothing! The jackpot resets to $200, so this was not a great feat.

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For 2018: Penny #30, 31.
For 2018: Dimes still at  # 8.
For 2018: Nickels still at #2.

Since 2017 (the beginning), this was Penny #108, 109.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this was still Dime #14.
Since 2017 (the beginning), this was still Nickel #2.
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10 comments:

  1. Again, that's $208.25 more than I've ever won with lottery tickers or in the casino.

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    1. But then again, you have also lost WAAYYYY less while trying to win!

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  2. Oh you are back on your winning streak. I am happy for you,
    although I wish it was ME.

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    1. Well. So I thought. Only to discover yesterday that I WAS NOT! That was one bright spot in a month of dark clouds.

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  3. I think Even Steven has a plan for you. Instead of random pennies to be picked up from blistering hot tarmac all summer, he'll give them to you in big batches at the casino. How long would it take you to find that many in car parking areas and gas station chicken stores?

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    1. According to my current tally, it would take me YEARS to find that many pennies in parking lots.

      Even Steven's current plan for me seems to be a lesson in humility. It's not even fun to play when I don't win as often as I used to.

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  4. Lost $45 Friday, i hate casinos!

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    1. I'm starting to develop a mild ambivalence to casinos myself! To nip this in the bud, I've been trying to convince myself that, like a winning streak doesn't last forever in scratchers or casinos...neither can a losing streak.

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  5. Congratulations on your "massive" win!!

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    1. Thanks! That puts me a little short of my caviar wishes and champagne dreams, though.

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