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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 464479, member: 9474&quot;]I have two stories that I would like to share with everyone - and they are coin related too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Several months ago (in fact, its been so long I can&#039;t remember the exact month) but it has been a while, I dropped a roll of silver dimes in my office.&nbsp; I picked them all up, but I couldn&#039;t for the life of me find one lousy dime.&nbsp; I looked everywhere.&nbsp; I tore the place apart and finally just gave up.&nbsp; Figured that some day when I move 30 years from now I will find it.&nbsp; Well, several weeks ago my wife brings to my attention a weird noise coming from the dryer.&nbsp; It was a screeching/rattling noise.&nbsp; Each time it would start, I would go over to the dryer and bang on it and it would go away.&nbsp; Finally, a few days ago, I decided to investigate a bit more and take off the front of the dryer.&nbsp; Can you guess what I found........!!!!! Yes you all guessed it..... that lousy dime.&nbsp; It must have bounced into my pant cuff and came out in the wash.&nbsp; Neat.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This next story will definitely certify my craziness.&nbsp; Ok, sitting in my office tonight looking at rolls of silver Washington quarters when one goes flying out of my hand... bounce, bounce, bounce.... right down the heating vent.&nbsp; So I pull off the vent cover and begin to reach for the quarter.&nbsp; No luck.&nbsp; So then I grab a small pole that I had and reach down into the vent.&nbsp; Blindly I start tapping around in the tubing, feeling around for the quarter. Finally, I hear it hit the pole.&nbsp; So now I wrap packing tape around the pole and reach down into the vent to try to snag the quarter.&nbsp; The tape actually grabs it, but the tape got stuck on the sides of the tubing and the tape pulled off.&nbsp; So for the next half hour I try sticking that pole down there trying to snag the tape with the quarter on it. I had it once but lost it as I pulled it up.&nbsp; I could here it rolling back down the vent tubing.&nbsp; So now I run out to the garage and grab a plumber&#039;s snake.&nbsp; I spend another half hour trying to snag the tape and the quarter.&nbsp; In the process, I hear the quarter fall off the tape and continue to move down the venting.&nbsp; I snagged the tape once, but that too fell off and rolled back down the venting.&nbsp; I was about to give up, but that crap would drive me crazy..... so under the house I went.&nbsp; My crawl space under the house is a good 3feet, so on my belly I crawled to the vent tubing.&nbsp; Fortunately, I didn&#039;t have far to crawl.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t take off the tubing so what I did was tap the quarter back up the vent tubing until it wouldn&#039;t go any further.&nbsp; Then I crawled back out, stomped through an inch of snow, came back inside, took a beating from my wife for tracking in mud and snow, stripped down to my skivvies (ok, you probably don&#039;t want that visual) went back to the vent to start all over again... did I mention that I put some fresh clothes on?&nbsp; Fortunately, the quarter was right there, but just out of reach from my hand.&nbsp; So I wrapped tape around the pole again and very carefully lowered it back into the vent and snagged the quarter and the old tape that fell off!&nbsp; Sweet.&nbsp; &quot;All that for 25 cents&quot; my wife says, chuckling, I reply back that this wasn&#039;t ANY 25 cents.... it was silver.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well persistence paid off. :rolling:<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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