SOOOOO !

[nomad 11]

i'm mosyen along minden my own business and outa the corner of my eye i see that derned coin machine again. and i'm getting closer and closer and i'm thikin to myself do i feel lucky punk. no ! no i sure dont. and then i hesitate and i start thinkin just how much covid 19 could be on that coin slot. and then i think again that there could be silver coins in there though ! oh what the heck. so i sticks my fingers in and twingles em around. and this is what comes out. you dont see anything. well thats what came out. so i had to go wash my hands for nuthin. well i had to tend to some other business in there anyway. so much for luck again. toodles

 

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[A2coins]

People in my town are too cheap to even leave a penny

 

[Silvermonkey]

You had to look. It's like when, back in the day, there were these things called pay phones...I always felt compelled to check the change return slot....always....

 

[Erik in NJ]

You had to look. It's like when, back in the day, there were these things called pay phones...I always felt compelled to check the change return slot....always....

One time when I was a kid back in the early 70s I found $1.35 in nickles and dimes in one lump sum in one of those payphone coin slots--man I felt like I hit the lottery! Another time I opened and looked into one and saw that some *sshole had filled it with Yoo Hoo chocolate drink. The kid I was with (my friend) was shorter than the payphone--so I said "go ahead see if there's anything in there" and he started twingling his finger around in the Yoo Hoo whle I LMAO Still pretty funny when I think about it!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Sometimes you are just compelled to check those return slots out! Yup!

 

[U.B.]

We have one machine, in our town, and it’s directly in the line of sight; of one cashier. I’ve never seen so much empty.

 

[SusanMN]

You have to check, even now. My avatar civil war penny was from a coin return, mixed in with a few odd pieces of modern change.

 

[nomad 11]

People in my town are too cheap to even leave a penny

no ur just really unlucky. havnt u heard that expression the early bird catches the worm / well u just were'nt early enuf. oh well better luck next time.

 

[nomad 11]

One time when I was a kid back in the early 70s I found $1.35 in nickles and dimes in one lump sum in one of those payphone coin slots--man I felt like I hit the lottery! Another time I opened and looked into one and saw that some *sshole had filled it with Yoo Hoo chocolate drink. The kid I was with (my friend) was shorter than the payphone--so I said "go ahead see if there's anything in there" and he started twingling his finger around in the Yoo Hoo whle I LMAO Still pretty funny when I think about it!

well a little yoohoo isnt going to kill ya. now if it was hoohaa. now thats somthin to be feared

 

[fistfulladirt]

It pays to check. I wasn’t a big believer until a little while back I made a random check of a CS in a large store and hit the jackpot, thirty some silvers. The coins spilled onto the floor as I was on my knees scooping. The silver bug inside me overcame any embarrassment I felt over being a grown man on knees picking coins up from the floor! My wife and daughter hightailing it out of there as fast as they could.

 

[SusanMN]

A funny story from a few years back. The coin counting machine at the grocery at that time was one that had a little door that you had to push in to check if anything was left behind. Could be quite unpleasant but this particular time I could barely get it open it was so full of coins. I started to take some out and it was just like a waterfall of coins pouring out and onto the floor. I had to quick grab a grocery bag at which point I had a bit of an audience as I picked them up off the floor and out of the machine. A total of $23 plus. Nothing silver or old, just either a machine malfunction or someone who didn’t care and left them behind. I was half expecting someone to come up and ask if those were my coins but they never did.

 

[Muddyhandz]

Hey, it's in our blood!
I saw a shiny quarter laying right at the entrance of a busy store and I guarantee many saw it but left it due to covid.
Didn't have to think twice about that and picked it up.
At least I was wearing a mask!