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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?
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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