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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   > I found a nice score a whi8le back in my local grocery's coin counting   
   machine   
      
     There was once one in a store I went to.  I was back in it one day for   
   something I couldn't get otherwise and it was gone.   
      
   >  I'm in my wheelchair, rolling padt, & I sees a nice little stack of   
   > coins in there, scooped it up; found a few foreign coins to add to my   
   informal colection, & about $5.   
      
     One of my jobs in parking is emptying the meters, taking those bags* of   
   coins to the bank, having them counted and given back paper which is taken   
   back to the parking office and deposited with the other paper money.   
     The counter at the bank broke and for weeks the coins piled up.   
     The machine was finally repaired and had bags and bags of coins.   
     Each trip the counter would hand me several Canadian quarters the counter   
   kicked out.   
     One summer when emptying the meters I found someone had put in old silver   
   quarter.  I called it raiding Granny's piggy bank.  I brought those at face   
   value and worth far more than that. They are in a desk drawer.   
     (*The bank as gone from multiple use canvass bags, to one time only use   
   plastic bags.  ==sigh==  "Progress".)   
      
   > regfularly checked payphone Coin Rerturn slots for the occasional quarter or   
   6!   
      
     If I see a pay phone, rarer and rarer now, I still check the coin return.   
     I was asked once why and said their might a coin in there.   
     Spotting one not far away I took a quarter from my pocket without being   
   noticed (I was walking along with my hands in my pocket) and hiding it in my   
   fingers, I opened the slot and pulled out the quarter I had "found".   
      
   > Same as I put my refundable drink containers (pop, juice)   
      
     One time we had a recycling place here for aluminum cans.   
     But one would take a large trash bag of cans and get only a few cents for   
   them.  Not worth the effort.    
      
   >>   In addition to that, today he could resale those jeans as "distressed"   
   and make a fashion statement.  :)   
   >    
   > True enough.  The jeans the young girls wear today!    
      
     I see girls on campus in ripped and torn jeans all the time.  Just   
   tatters and rags.  They look like street urchins in some Dickens story.   
     And they probably cost more than if if all the material were still there.   
      
   > I'm of the philosophy that everything is walking distance, if you begin   
   early enough.   
       
      LOL.  Good one.  Gotta remember that.   
      Joe   
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