Today’s weight = Not available
Today’s coinage = $3.09
Best Find, narrative follows
In terms of secular logic, I am absolutely and completely a
bona fide scientific method person. Yet
I could not ignore some premonition to take a Sunday afternoon walk. In the first block I found a curb nickel,
surely an omen of good things to follow. But if the find was an augury, it was
a negative one. The next 30 blocks in
spite of active scanning and focusing, not another coin, not even a penny was
found. I now knew, or thought I knew
that my once promising walk was being foreshadowed by failure. Still a modest amount of coins were accumulating,
but well below average. Then as if a horseshoe
had been placed in my hand, compelled by a hunch, an inner voice sounding
something like a soothsayer from the East, compelled me to take a detour from
my established walking route and to the parking lot of New Orleans’ India House
a youth hostel. There along the curb was
one of the largest scatters of my many years of moneywalking --six quarters,
four dimes, three nickels, and eight pennies for a total of $2.13. That plus the $.96 made a total of
$3.09. As I said, science and logic trumps fear and superstition every time.
MoneyWalker
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