The "Force"

So I was out of town for a few days. I went off to Denver to see a good friend of mine get married. This is the change report from that trip. It includes a "supernatural" occurrence and a re-designation of a city to Street Change status.

Friday was a very odd day. I arrived at Denver International Airport and had some time to kill before I could head downtown to my hotel. I looked for a place to have some lunch. As I rounded the corner on the upper level, I came upon one fast-food chain and some people standing in line. I was just walking by when the girl dropped a coin. And then I got closer and she dropped another one. I saw that she retrieved one of the coins but not the other. I just kept on walking.

And then it happened again! Not even five seconds had passed. What was weirder was someone else in a different line dropped a coin just as I coming up next to them. That person retrieved their dropped change. Still, it was a little uncanny.

Saturday I had four more instances where as I came "close" to some people, they would drop a coin. Maybe I'm more attuned to dropped change now but it's a little funny too. Perhaps I've developed a "force". :P

At the Denver International airport on Friday I found 2 dimes. When I flew back today (Sunday) I found a quarter. I don't consider airports to be attached to a city. Airports and malls regardless of where they are are in their own category. People have to walk in these environments so all airports for major metropolitan areas are equal.

However, I will re-designate Denver as a Street Change city due to some great finds on Saturday. It was my second time to the city since I had started this blog and the first time I spent a week and barely found anything. This time was much different and I made a tactical change. I walked all around blocks ADJACENT to their 16th street mall. Now, you'd figure that a pedestrian mall zone would be great. WRONG. I don't know but that is one spic and span area. They must clean up those blocks all the time. I only found 1 penny on the mall.

Looking outside the 16th street mall: 16 pennies. And at one curbside parking space, there were 13. Just gotta know the environment.

Last, I found 2 pennies at JFK as I was waiting for my luggage. All told, a fantastic few days and soon approaching the inaugural lotto ticket purchase. Stay tuned!