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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3567357, member: 72790&quot;]Well, let me tell you about my FOF coins. For many years I used to teach in a local, fairly affluent, suburban high school. One of the duties teachers had at the school was monitoring certain activities, like hall duty, study halls, in school suspension, etc. One duty was cafeteria duty. Most teachers hated that duty but I liked it for several reasons, one of which was because it was remunerative. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the fastest thing I learned about this school was that kids would not pick up coins dropped onto the cafeteria floor. Not only did they never pick up pennies, they would not pick up nickels or dimes and about half the time they would leave quarters where they fell. I operated on the same principle in the school cafeteria I used at home with the family dog, who knew that if any food hit the floor it was his. Those coins lying on the floor where mine. I usually waited until about five minutes before the lunch period ended to make my rounds. On any given day I would pick up at least fifty cents, sometimes seventy-five cents and on good days a buck or more. Some of the teachers I had cafeteria duty with thought I was nuts for doing this and one day in the faculty room brought up my bizarre behavior, much to the amusement of my colleagues. </p><p><br /></p><p>After the chuckling and clucking died down I asked him if he would pick up $50 off the floor. He said he probably would. I then asked him to do some math for everyone&#039;s edification. Let&#039;s say it was an average school day, fifty or sixty cents. That would be about three dollars a week times 42 teaching weeks. Hmm. Do the math and in any given year I would acquire well over a hundred dollars in my FOF, found on the floor, stipend. I actually did not keep the money for myself but as student council advisor I used that extra cash at the end of the year which paid for a lot of pizza and soda at the student council end of school picnic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think the math, home ec., or business ed. departments taught this sort of thing in their classes to their students, but they should have as it would have made a lot of cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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