LUCKY 7/7/7 ! ! !

Boy did this day turn out to be LUCKY. However it started pretty normal.

I went on a bike ride from my place over to the West Side Highway and up around Herald Square. During my short trip I spotted 3 pennies at two intersections. Yes, I'm a geek and got off my bike and picked them up. Nothing special about that.

After I had gotten back home and rested a little, I went out for some pizza. I picked up a dime by the bus stop near the corner. Cool. While I was approaching the Catholic Church on PPW and saw about 5 pennies on the sidewalk. Hmm. Odd. Usually I see one or two but a group means something's up. Then I noticed a few more in the street.

I started to pick them up.

A kid sitting on the steps to the Church said, some lady had a bag and it broke. All these pennies fell out. And I looked around. It was like the sidewalk was covered in pennies. I gasped.

So I started picking them up. There were a lot! I stopped counting at 60. I maneuvered around the sidewalk and tried to pick them up as fast as I could. Someone came by and saw what I was doing and started picking up the change too. Oh, damn! I'm not going to get the total amount. Oh well.

BUT!

Being a GREAT Samaritan, she hands me what she had picked up. I said Thank you!

My pockets were bulging. With pennies, ahem.

So I went and got some pizza. Found a penny there and moseyed on home with my treasure find.

I counted the amount at home: 258 pennies. 2 Canadian pennies. 1 Bahamian penny.

Biggest find of the year!

Biggest find for one day for the year! Today's total adds up to (not including foreign currency) $2.73.

258 Pennies. Now that's some missing change, ladies.