Unbagging the Cats: Triple COINage For Val

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Triple COINage For Val

Val's Future Pennyillionaire week was off to a fast start on SATURDAY, April 22. I stepped into the Backroads Casey's to find a line waiting at the left register. I stood a respectable distance behind the last guy, who was holding a soda and a slice of pizza. But wait! What was THAT?

At the unmanned right register, I spied a treat for me (a PENNY), and a treat for Blog Buddy River (TWO sizes of Snickers).

It was an old-timey 1977 penny, heads up. I ample-rumpused it into my pocket, and was embarrassed by the old lady clerk stepping over there, saying, "I'll be with you in a minute."

"Oh, no! I'm not next. I'm just getting this lucky penny!"

Can't be too careful in a convenience store line! I didn't want to be pelted with soda and pizza.

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SUNDAY, April 23, my luck continued over at the Liquor Store. I was waiting to pull forward into a parking space, so as not to be blocked in by the drive-thru line. The guy had just gotten into his car, but was not moving. So I got out of T-Hoe, and of course he pulled away. However...

I would never have seen this penny in the yellow corner of the parking spaces if I had pulled through, and crossed in front of T-Hoe.

It was a heads-up, upside-down 2006 penny, rescued by the pocket of Val. But wait! I went inside to do my scratcher business, and on my way out, I found another!

Good thing I picked up that penny-impersonating Milk Dud a couple weeks ago, from over by the freezer and charcoal briquets, or it might still be there!