A Matter of HappenCENTS

MONDAY, November 25, I popped into the Backroads Casey's for some scratchers, and discovered my rightful penny hiding WAY under the gum rack. So far back I could only see it from the door as I entered, and by peering through the products on the rack. I fished it out with the toe of The Pony's cast-off shoe, and posed it in T-Hoe for the picture.

It was a heads-up 1991. The scratcher was a loser, but it has an interesting premise, and is colorful to boot! There are 10 rows of charcters. You scratch your way across, uncovering the Pac-Men. When you find a monster, you're done! You're a loser! I don't win much on this ticket, but the very first one I played was a $50 winner. So I can still hope.
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TUESDAY, November 26, I stopped by the Sis-Town Casey's while doing some last-minute errands at the bank before our Thanksgiving trip. Peeping out from under an individual bag of Bugles, next to a bag of Airheads candy, too far back to get a good picture, needing the shoe-toe for extraction, was this charmer:

A 2003 heads-up penny, waiting patiently for me to drop in unexpectedly. I doubt he would have still been there by Friday, my regular day. Sadly, that ticket was a loser. Oh, well. I can't expect to have it all! That would be unfair, getting scratchers winners AND pennies.
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THURSDAY, November 28 (that's THANKSGIVING DAY to you) I was cashing out at the end of the night (7:00, too soon, too soon!) and found a little extra joy in the coin tray of the ticket redeemer.

It was a face-down 2006, posed here on the desk in my hotel room. I couldn't exactly take a picture right there at the cash-out machine. Not with all those cameras trained on me, and people waiting behind. I had no desire to spend my Thanksgiving night in a windowless room, being interrogated by security staff. I guess one unlucky gambler went home 1 cent shy of his rightful winnings. I wouldn't deliberately steal from a fellow gambler, but I AM an opportunist...

Three cents this week. I'm gonna have to hustle to meet last year's total on pennies!
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2019 Running Total
Penny     # 115, 116, 117.
Dime      still at 19.
Nickel    still at 8.
Quarter    # 5.

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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