Tell a story that puts the "coin" in "coincidence"
tychojoe
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So my fiance and I walk into a Starbucks in Kansas City's Plaza last month, and the planets and the stars are lining up for a perfect spend. A coffee and a frappacino and tax take all my smallest bills and spare change, including the last $2 bill and the last president's dollar, which have been fun to put into circulation. Now, having a pocket empty of change is a welcome feeling, and rare.
For change, I have exactly one penny due me. As if the Universe is completing some numismatic loop, the cashier absent-mindedly hands back a copper. Of all the times to get one back in change (and the only one in a long time), this time it's a nice little wheatie!
That's all, that's my story! Kind of like Six Degrees, but for coin and currency instead of people.
So, instead of a thread about the oldest coin you got back in change, or the most recent time you got a cool coin back in change, tell a story about the most Twilight Zone/unusual coincidence (hey! there's a "coin" in "coincidence"!) you've experienced involving money.
For change, I have exactly one penny due me. As if the Universe is completing some numismatic loop, the cashier absent-mindedly hands back a copper. Of all the times to get one back in change (and the only one in a long time), this time it's a nice little wheatie!
That's all, that's my story! Kind of like Six Degrees, but for coin and currency instead of people.
So, instead of a thread about the oldest coin you got back in change, or the most recent time you got a cool coin back in change, tell a story about the most Twilight Zone/unusual coincidence (hey! there's a "coin" in "coincidence"!) you've experienced involving money.
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Have a "coin"cidence story to tell?
I went to buy a soda for my wife at the vending machine. Cost $1.25. I put two $1 bills in the machine and it dispensed the soda and gave three quarters change.....plus a dime that popped out of the change tray and fell to the floor.
I could tell the dime was silver by the ring it made soon as it hit the floor.1959-D.
This particular machine is not set-up to dispense dimes as change,only quarters. The silver dime was apparently wedged between the clad quarters in the machine's change tube?
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
---Albert Einstein (b. 14Mar1879--d. 18Apr1955)
At last... a Coinstar coincidence..... passing by yesterday and noted a coin in the reject bin standing on edge against the side.... reached in and pulled it out, heard a 'clink'...and there was another...the second was a silver dime (1964), the first a clad. Both were 'side clingers'...Cheers, RickO