I love it when folks drop the dimes.

[jimcor]

OK. I admit it. You drop your pennies after you leave the convenient store, I'm gonna pick 'em up. People laff at the codger bending down to snatch a (hopefully) copper coin. I don't care go ahead and chuckle. Lately tho' I've been picking up more and more dimes amid the zincers. Gotta love it! Is that where my latest keeper Rosie a '46 came from? Could be.

BTW to follow the rules found 2 dimes and 3 pennies (1 copper) on an after work beer run Today! Score!

 

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[Knightwalker]

Like they say. A penny saved is a penny earned. So if you find a dime that is like 10 pennies your saving and earning. So keep up the good searching.
HH in 2010

 

[Daddio53]

I have to start out by saying that what I am about to write goes back to 1962 or so, and I am by far the furthest thing from a racist. Back in '62 I was 9. This was a point in time when Polak was a big word. It was a derogatory word making fun of Polish people. It was said that Polak's were so cheap that they would pick up a penny if you dropped it on the ground. I grew up in Chicagoland, and as you may or may not know, there are more Polish people in Chicago than in any city in Poland or anywhere else in the world. Anyway, we used to throw a penny on the ground and if anybody picked it up we would all yell out, "You Polak. You picked up a penny." We were 9 after all, and this was a funny thing to us, not a racist thing.

That said, a lot of people will still not bend over to pick up a penny if they drop it as if it's too much work to do for a single cent, or maybe they are still stigmatized by the old Polak thing. So there seem to be a lot of pennies on the ground at convenience stores. Two days ago I bent over to pick up a penny and there was a dime and a nickel to boot. That seems to me to be a lot of money to just leave on the ground unless a person is handicapped and can't bend over. If I could pick up 16 cents every time I hit a convenience store parking lot I would go to the store all the time. So I haven't found any silver or other of the cooler coins in the lot, but every penny counts. By the way, we always wondered when we were kids how to spell Polak. There were so many possibilities and we didn't have computers that showed Urban definitions. How did we ever live without computers?

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

How about the legend of a penny laying on the ground heads up is good luck. I guess if it is tales up, some people may not pick it up, thinking it will bring bad luck.

 

[rogues71]

i dont give a dam what people think ill pick up a penny in a heart beat and i drive a bmw z3, when people say something i tell them how do you think i bought this car

 

[The_Griffyn]

I'm only 36 and I don't give two &^%$'s about what people might say or think. I pick up any change I see laying on the ground. Heads up, tails up, again I don't care. The other day I was at work and went to the soda machine to get a drink. I knelt down and took a peek under the machine and scored 65 cents- 10 cents shy of paying for my drink. Once, I was in a parking lot and knelt down to pick up a coin in the gutter and not 2 feet from me was a dollar bill mixed in with some landscaping debris.

As long as people keep dropping it, I'll keep picking it up. Oh, and when you are next at a vending machine and remember what I said, think of me when you find something under there


The Griffyn

 

[DMN]

My girlfriend and I have a challenge to see what we can spot day to day. Sometimes she wins and sometimes I win but the challenge is the fun part. We have a jar of 'found money' (not the detected stuff) to put the change in and it does accumulate pretty fast. We both do well in our jobs so it's not like we have to pick up change but we were both brought up that money saved is a good thing. I'll pick up a penny as fast as a dollar. The jar has about $300 or so right now and keeps on going. Thanks to all of those people who couldn't be bothered. Keeps my back flexible having to bend over for your leavings.

 

[49r Relics]

I'm only 36 and I don't give two &^%$'s about what people might say or think. I pick up any change I see laying on the ground. Heads up, tails up, again I don't care.

The Griffyn

lol, this is me too, I have been known to get out of my car at a redlight to pickup up a quarter in the median or gutter. I also often open my drivers door at the drive through fastfood joint to pickup clad coins under the window, there is always at least .50 cents down there, . My Wife and kids get so embarrassed. It goes in my clad for the year count and at the end of the year I buy 1oz, 5oz and 10oz silver bars with all of the clad.

 

[gold eye]

Hello you pickers thats the new name for us and i love it if people are going to throw money on the ground then i will be there to pick it up i filled a water bottle 5 gallon with pennies that i found 2 hundred dollars and then bought stock in publix supermarkets for 40 dollars a share it went 88 a share . It split the next year 5 for 1 not a bad return on found money so i say throw it down people i will be there to pick it up. ron aka gold eye :

 

[Kas]

If I'm going to dig a penny up, I'll sure pick one up right off the ground.

Keep on keepin' on.

Dig it,
Ken

 

[The_Griffyn]

Went to a sandwhich place today with a co-worker so he could grab a bite to take back to the office. Guy in front of us gets his change and drops two pennies on the floor, looks down at them, and then sits down not 5 feet from where he dropped them. So I of course walk over and pick them up. he looked at me like I was a homeless guy except I was in uniform. He must think the military is getting next to no pay

I am now 2 cents richer.


-TG-

 

[Kanyontreasures]

great finds!!

 

[Texasgopher]

I pick up any change I see. I used to have a friend who threw Penny's in the trash cause he said "they aren't worth anything". Made me so stinkin mad!


TG

 

[allen]

all that clad adds up !!

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

That's how you can spot a fellow MD'ER.
Doesn't mind picking any amount of $$$

 

[DMN]

I pick up any change I see. I used to have a friend who threw Penny's in the trash cause he said "they aren't worth anything". Made me so stinkin mad!


TG

What's really going to make you mad is (or actually your great great great grandkids) is when they go detecting and find all those lousy copper coated zincs in the park planted over the dump pile those pennies went to!

 

[extractor]

all that clad adds up !!

good one!

 

[SkyPirate]

Got a 1940 Nickle in my change today.

 

[NaturalJWL]

Check out "I Can't Believe My Eyes" on this forum.

And besides, every coin says "In God We Trust"

 

[rennie]

you bet I will pick it up!! "It says in God We Trust" that is more than we can say about our politicians. Every time I see a coin on the ground I say BEEP BEEP (that is a metal detector sound isnt it) and pick it up.