NYC - Early morning FOG finds - Totals

I took a picture of different small tree plots where coins are discarded

 

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No major FOG's for today...
But I did find a 2 Cent Euro and a GB Penny

 

LOL. Think about though. Picking up a screw or bolt not only adds to my coffee can but it’s worth anywhere from $10 or $20 bucks to hundreds of dollars!! Not to me but to the person who didn’t get a flat tire by driving over it having either to repair or even replace the tire. Always picking them up in Lowe’s or Home Depot parking lots not to mention the change!!! Just a good deed (must be ingrained in me from my Boy Scout days).

 

Yes. You can’t bless them enough. I consider it a compliment when I’m told that I’m like my Grandfather. He never threw anything away and I can still hear his voice telling me to save something, You never know when you’re going to need it. He had coffee cans of bent sometimes rusted nails and screws. He literally built walls, closets, kitchens, bathrooms...entire houses using that stuff. He was a master carpenter/electrician/plumber...self taught. No way could I pass up a screw or nail let alone pennies or change. God bless them.

 

Someone left his billfold on top of a gas pump in a gas station. I turned it in to the cashier and they gave me a receipt and took my number. The owner called later and thanked me. We should always try to treat people the way we would want to be treated.

 

My FOG finds for yesterday and today (combined).. 40 Cents and a neat button -

 

Very cool. Keep your eye on the ground, but glance up often so you don't walk into something, or someone. LOL

 

I had sort of a FOG find a few hours ago. When I went to the local library for some books on CD, I noticed a woman and a couple of kids squatted down looking at books on a low shelf. By her feet was a quarter. I started to say something, but everyone was moving around looking down within about a foot from the quarter. I just figured they would see it, but regretted not saying something. Ten minutes later as I left, there were different people there, squatted down, kids, and the quarter was still there on the floor. Just a couple of feet away from their noses. I pointed at it and said, "I think that's your quarter". A different woman picked it up and handed it to the one squatted and said, "Oh, it must be, here". And the squatted lady smiled and took it. It wasn't hers of course, but it was fun just the same.

 

Maybe I'll find something when the three feet of snow melts.

 

I guess the worst (or best, depending on one's point of view) example of my FOG obsession: I was the front seat passenger, my son was driving, grandkids and my wife in the back seat, on a street in Rapid City, SD. I happened to glance out the car window while stopped at a traffic light and noticed a cent on the ground. I shouted, rushed out and nabbed it, got back in before the light changed.

I gave my grandkids a laugh, something I doubt they'll ever forget.

Steve

 

My FOG for this morning..
A nice little Argentina flag lapel pin and a few coins -

 

I lived 11 years in Rapid City in my past and can't recall finding coins on the bike path I frequently ran on. Do/did you live there? I loved the Black Hills area and seriously thought about moving back when I retired.

 

My son and his family live in Custer. Beautiful in the Hills, but so far from northern Minnesota where I live. Custer has an awful lot of folks who head back there for retirement. The winters there would be tolerable for me; they get dumped on once in a while, but it tends to go away in a few days...unlike our winters in Minnesota. When the snow comes it STAYS until late March, early April.

Steve

 

The nice thing about living in Rapid City was getting a warm Chinnook wind in the winter once in a while. I remember cross country skiing in 60 degree weather in January in the northern Hills while Rapid City, about 3000 ft lower in elevation, stayed cloudy with temperatures in the teens. A friend had a summer cabin east of Custer that butted up against Jewel Cave National Monument. I enjoyed hiking there and bringing granite and mica rocks back to Oklahoma from a nearby abandoned mine. Now that I live in northern Wisconsin I'm in a similar situation as you in northern Minnesota. I do make it to Duluth every three months to meet a couple retired South Dakota School of Mines and Technology colleagues for lunch.

 

OK not mine but close enough. My girl friend spots a folded $100 bill on the sidewalk while we in New Orleans for Mardi Gras this weekend. She points it out and asks is that real? I pick it up and sure enough it was. We enjoyed a nice lunch with it.

 

Today's Home Depot visit - Found on floor near self pay machines...

 

That store should come with a spelunking map... you are now in the 2nd subbasement of the former cigar shop...

 

Lately I really haven't found any coins.. Or maybe just 1 or 2.
But this morning I found 8 US Cents and a 1981 Canadian Cent


That's just the way it is sometimes!

 

Great Morning CoinTalk freinds!
Today I am blessed...
My FOG for today is...

$110.00 as I was nearing my job!

 

Looks like a drug deal gone bad.