No silver for Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune this week, but the coins were still flowing. Enough is as good as a feast.
SUNDAY, August 7, I wheeled my cart/walker to the lottery machine at the front of Save A Lot, and saw a surprise:
This lottery machine has only been there a few months. Looks like a regular arcade is taking form! You can't see it, but to the right of the lottery machine is one of those coin-pusher machines. You put in a quarter, and see if you can knock off other coins or the folded-and-taped $50 bill laying on top of them. You get to keep what falls out the slot. I love those things, but haven't played one since The Pony was a tweenager.
There's a cash machine, heh, heh, to the left. And a machine I've never played, that has some good prizes you try to get by lining up a thingy to take it out of its slot. Oh, and a GRABBER machine, which I also enjoy, and which The Pony is a master of. I miss playing these money-stealers with The Pony. But I still have my scratcher machine!
It was a face-down 2017 penny, tarnishing on the tile.
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MONDAY, August 8, I contemplated leaving my phone in T-Hoe, due to a deep-dipping dark cloud hanging over the Backroads Casey's. I recall that such a choice usually leads to me finding a penny, so slid it into my pocket. Wouldn't you know it! I had scarcely rounded T-Hoe and stepped up on the sidewalk when I saw that I had chosen correctly:
Waiting on the sidewalk, right in my path! Good thing I had my phone camera.
It was a face-down 2021 penny, shiny even before the clouds opened and pelted it with a deluge.
Once inside, I almost broke my arm patting myself on the back for bringing in my phone.
ANOTHER penny was waiting for me. And behind it was its buddy, a dime. That's what broke my heart! I was unable to procure that dime. Too far under the counter. My foot is not big enough to slide it out. I couldn't bury my face in the David Sunflower Seeds to fish about blindly with my hand. So I had to leave that dime behind. So unfair! But I stop short of carrying around a stick to prod coins out from under counters.
This was a face-down 1977 penny, now longing for his dimey companion, cold-shouldering the other coins welcoming him to my 2022 penny goblet that looks like an ice cream sunday dish.
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THURSDAY, August 11, I walked out of Country Mart juggling my just-purchased $3 scratchers from the machine, and the folded winners I'd scanned in to buy them. I stepped over to the little wastebasket with the swinging lid and threw the used winners away. WAIT A MINUTE! What was that I'd stepped over? I turned around to look back:
Not just a sticky spot on the rug, but a penny!
A face-down 1993 penny. As I took my pictures and bent to pick it up, the double doors behind me and those in front of me alternated opening and closing. I guess I was in the eye of both as I moved to and fro. I have a magical ample rumpus!
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That's 4 COINS this week, for 4 CENTS towards Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune!
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2022 RUNNING TOTAL
Penny # 73, 74, 75, 76.
Dime still at 14.
Nickel still at 5.
Quarter still at 6.
Penny # 73, 74, 75, 76.
Dime still at 14.
Nickel still at 5.
Quarter still at 6.
Penny 124
Dime 14
Nickel 7
Quarter 6
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There's that lovely pink and green floor again! I like it. Shame about the dime though.
ReplyDeleteIt IS a pretty floor, but their rug could use some vacuuming. That dime loss still hurts my heart. If only I had longer feet, or they had shorter shelves!
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