SOOOOO !

nomad 11 · Oct 26, 2020

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

A2coins · Oct 26, 2020

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

Silvermonkey · Oct 26, 2020

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 · Oct 26, 2020

Silvermonkey said:
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! :treasurechest:

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 :laughing7:

Still pretty funny when I think about it! :tongue3:

ArfieBoy · Oct 26, 2020

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

U.B. · Oct 26, 2020

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 · Oct 26, 2020

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 · Oct 29, 2020

A2coins said:
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 · Oct 29, 2020

Erik in NJ said:
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 · Oct 29, 2020

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 · Oct 29, 2020

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 · Oct 29, 2020

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! :laughing7: