Prevail On, Silver Val. Beat That Guy. Your DIME Has Come to Shine.

Heh, heh! Remember way back on Wednesday, when Val was all worried over that Santa-Man who snatched a quarter off the Country Mart parking lot just before Val walked by? No worries now! Like a nudge over bungled quarters, Even Steven has eased her mind.

THURSDAY, March 5, I stepped out of T-Hoe at the Backroads Casey's, and glanced back to see a shiny DIME waiting for me!

I guess it's a good thing this Casey's hadn't hosed down their parking lot before I got there!

It was a heads-up 2016, in the path where people walk from the gas pumps into the store.

Of course I was giddy with excitement as I headed over to Orb K, to get a 44 oz Diet Coke Polar Pop. The Gas Station Chicken Store had a cashier with a hefty cough the previous day. Val's not pushing her luck with unnecessary contamination! So I bypassed the GSCS.

Anyhoo...you're not going to believe this, but as I stepped out of T-Hoe at Orb K...

I glanced back to see a shiny DIME waiting for me! How's that for The Universe telling me I'm on the right track? One way or another, I was going to find a dime next to T-Hoe as I climbed out! Heh, heh! Looks like Val outsmarted The Universe, and nabbed them BOTH. The Backroads Casey's had not been on my original plan for the day. I took a last minute detour due to traffic, to avoid the School-Turn Casey's I'd been headed to.

This was a heads-up 1994. The Genius year! You realize, don't you, that these heads-up dimes would have been gone if Santa-Man stopped there before me!
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FRIDAY, March 6, I continued to reap coinage as I braved the Gas Station Chicken Store for my magical elixir. Different gal behind the counter! I was double lucky. Although I didn't realize the Part 2 of my luck until I went out the door clutching my beverage and a scratcher.

Don't you hate it when you're carrying 44 oz of Diet Coke and a lottery ticket, and find a dime that requires you to take a one-handed photo with your son's hand-me-down six-year-old phone?

This 1995 version was face down, and technically would have been safe from that marauding Santa-Man. I took no chances, though. A car had been parked over it when I went inside with two good hands for picture-taking.
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That's 3 dimes for Val this week! I'm certainly not complaining for lack of pennies. Do you know how many pennies it would take to accumulate this week's 30 cents? I'm pretty sure you do. I hear that Future Pennyillionaire train chugging down the track!
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2020 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny      still at 19.
Dime        # 4, 5, 6.
Nickle      still at 3.
Quarter  0 (Darn you, Santa-Man at Country Mart!)

2019 TOTALS
Penny     134
Dime        20
Nickel        8
Quarter      5
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