December 10th, 2014
A few months ago, I found a plastic bag full of really nasty
and tarnished coins – mostly dimes, nickels, and quarters. Nothing old or rare, mind you. Just the nastiest-looking coins one likely has
ever seen. Like…, way too nasty to touch
with bare hands. Apparently, the coins
had been left in a plastic bag tucked away inside a piece of storage furniture with
some painting supplies on someone’s outdoor porch for at least several
years.
So, as the property owner didn’t want the coins, I decided
to clean the coins up and spend them as there was at least thirty-five dollars
worth of coins in the bag, if not more.
After soaking the coins in cleaning products and some further cleaning –
twice, most of the tarnish had come off the coins. While still somewhat nasty, the only real
problem with the coins then was that the finish of the coins had also come off –
more or less. That is, the dimes, nickels,
and quarters now all looked like pennies at first glance because those coins no
longer had any silvery-looking finish.
Being as nasty as the coins were even after cleaning, I decided
to start using the coins to pay highway tolls.
I remember one toll-booth operator on the Massachusetts Turnpike
thinking the coins were pennies and the looks on the faces of the New Jersey
Turnpike toll-booth operators as well.
The best reaction, however, was when the New York Port Authority cop who
was collecting tolls at the Throgs Neck Bridge thought the coins were fake and
exclaimed that now she had “seen everything.”
:)
But anyway, since spending many of those really
nasty-looking coins throughout the northeastern United States and other states
as I travelled west, it seems many of the coins have taken to following
me. That is to say, it seems when I am
given loose change at a store, I am now forever being given coins (dimes,
nickels, and quarters) that have no finish on them – and the coins I’m getting
now often look like pennies at first glance too. Can they be the same coins that I spent as I travelled
throughout and across the nation? Kind’a
funny and weird, huh? Let me know if you
per chance get any of those coins too, will ‘ya?
AVT
See:
Do Unto Others and the Same Will Be Done Unto You By Others
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