No grass growing under Val's feet this week on her parking-lot penny-hunting grounds!
TUESDAY, December 12, we were going through the line to order our lunch at the casino when I glanced down and saw
A semi-lucky penny! More on that tomorrow. But it's lucky for YOU if you can see it in this tile pattern! I had The Pony get a picture for me.
It was a face-down 2008 penny, hoping to hitch a ride 85.6 miles northeast. Abe Lincoln has trouble thumbing a ride, especially with his face in the tile.
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WEDNESDAY, December 13, I stopped in Orb K for some scratchers. I spied this little luckster under the counter:
This face-down 2014 penny was the real deal. More on that tomorrow, too. I couldn't get a closeup without excessively ample-rumpusing a riled-up line waiting in the maze behind me. So I got this picture while the clerk was scanning my tickets, and then snatched it up with a quick amp-rump.
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THURSDAY, December 14, was errand day. Over in Sis-Town, I returned from paying for T-Hoe's gas to harvest this little fellow:
I saw it on the way in, but two fears held me back. I would have been standing in the driving lane, where people are wont to whiz by, uninhibited by objects moving or non- in their path. AND there was a somewhat raggedy man of questionable residence, leaning on a trash can against the building, staring at me from the moment I stepped out of T-Hoe. I did not want to out-weirdo the weirdo. Besides, what if he asked if I had spare change? How could I say NO, when he had just observed me picking up my rightful penny!
Thankfully, the stare-gazer was walking away with a companion when I came out, and did not witness the presentation of my ample rumpus as I got pictures and scooped up this penny of indeterminate age or orientation. Even at home, after a rinse, and under a magnifying glass, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
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That's 3 COINS this week, for 3 CENTS towards Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune!
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2023 RUNNING TOTAL
Penny # 88, 89, 90.
Dime still at 18
Nickel still at 1
Quarter still at 4
2022 FINAL TOTALS
Penny 124
Dime 21
Nickel 7
Quarter 9
Penny 124
Dime 14
Nickel 7
Quarter 6
That would have been so funny if you had picked the penney up and the man had asked if you had any spare change:) Good thinking Val!
ReplyDeleteI'm always a step ahead when it comes to protecting my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune! I've given people hanging out there a handful of change from T-Hoe's console, but I don't hand out my found pennies all willy-nilly!
DeleteI feel sorry for the pennies that have had such a rough life. I only spotted the one on the tiles because I was looking for it, if I'd been standing in that line my eyes would have been on the lunch line.
ReplyDeleteWe had just ordered, and Hick was paying. The Pony and I were headed to the soda fountain with our cups/lids/straws. It sits on that brown cabinet. Of course a penny would catch MY eye! So I told The Pony to get me a picture. He's always holding his phone, and mine was in my purse.
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