CENT From Above, Just For Val on CasinoPalooza 4

MONDAY morning, Hick and I left for CasinoPalooza 4. We didn't take our regular route, because we had a check I wanted to deposit at the bank. Because of that, we stopped by a Casey's over in the neighborhood of my sister the ex-mayor's wife. Hick changed his mind about gassing up A-Cad there, but I used the opportunity for a bathroom break before hitting the rural roads for an hour before our next stop. And also to buy Hick and myself a scratcher.

As with all events where Hick is around, I was discombobulated to be out of my routine, and left my phone in A-Cad when I went inside. Of course the minute I walked in, I saw a DIME! I picked it up, even with no picture to prove it happened. No sooner had I started down the sidewalk outside on the way to A-Cad than I saw a PENNY laying in my path. I picked it up, too, and took a picture of my special coins laying on the seat of A-Cad.

The dime was face-down, a 2015. The penny was also face-down, a 2019. I was pretty happy to start CasinoPalooza 4 on such a good note. Normally, we'd have met Sis and the Ex-Mayor about 20 miles up the road, in a different town. That check, which I got to the bank at 12:00 on Saturday, AFTER they'd locked the door, had put us in this location on this day. Oh, yeah. Hick won $25 on his scratcher, too.

CasinoPalooza was a three-day affair. We stayed at Downstream Casino on Monday night, but then Hick and I had to change to Indigo Sky for Tuesday night, because Hick didn't use his player's card enough on our Christmas trip with the boys to get a free night at Downstream like the rest of us.

We'd all been riding around to the assorted casinos in A-Cad on Monday. Hick used the valet service at Downstream. The Ex-Mayor had not used valet, but had parked his Expedition in the regular parking lot after dropping off Sis and the bags. As we checked out on TUESDAY morning, Hick got A-Cad and loaded up our luggage and drove over to the parking lot. We still had some playing to do to earn a free soft-side cooler. Then we all walked to the parking lot when we were ready to head out for different casinos. Sis and the Ex-Mayor wanted to get their coats out of their car, so Hick had parked near it.

We walked up to A-Cad, parked totally randomly by Hick, a row over, and 6-7 spaces down from Sis's Expedition. And there it was...

A PENNY, obviously meant just for ME, since it was laying right where I'd step on it getting into the door. Well. I must say, even Hick and Sis were kind of impressed. "Mom knows what we're doing," said Sis. I tend to agree.

This was a 2014, face-down. Of course I picked it up!

A couple casinos later, we were at Buffalo Run, in Miami, Oklahoma. I had just left Sis sitting at a slot, telling her I felt like going over to play Dancing Drums. There are three Dancing Drums in a row. I chose the one on the right end, by the wall. As I pulled out the chair, something caught my eye.

It was a NICKEL, under my Dancing Drum. Which, I might add, gave me a bonus. As did the one on the other end. Not a rich-making bonus, but still, a fun bonus.

The nickel was face-down, a 1983. I don't know what a nickel was doing over here. The slots don't take coins, only paper money or tickets, and the cash-out machine was in the opposite corner of the casino from this slot. Nobody came away from CasinoPalooza 4 with a profit, but every little coin helps.
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And... our last-minute, stop-the-presses coin joined the penny party on SATURDAY at 11:27 a.m., a scant hour and 43 minutes before the scheduled posting of Val's weekly Saturday CENTus.

It was unmissable, gleaming at me there in the leftover anti-slick gravel left from the last freezing rain storm. I must confess, I sometimes do not want to find a coin on Saturdays, since they require extra work to stop the presses on my already-scheduled post.


No way was I going to overlook this face-down 1994 road-coin! It was meant for me, and I was going to harvest it, by cracky!

I'll never top last week's total, but 27 cents in one week is nothing to sneeze at!
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2019 Running Total
Penny   # 45, 46.
Dime    # 5, 6.
Nickel  # 5.
Quarter  still at 1.

2018 TOTALS
Penny  131
Dime  17
Nickel  6
Quarter  1

2017 TOTALS (Started in March, 2017)
Penny  78
Dime   6
Nickel  0
Quarter  0
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