Take a good hard look at this quarter. It should take full responsibility for teaching me a lesson last week! I know that it looks like just a regular ordinary quarter, but if you look again, you will notice that it lacks in luster and is dull and chipped around the edges. I first came in contact with this particular quarter when I exchanged some change in my pocket for two quarters at work to use in the peanut m&m slot in the vending machine. While pondering over my beloved peanut m&m's and the new arrival of the hot tamales, I was holding both quarters in my hand side by side. They were stark contrast to each other, the other quarter being a new, shiny, Georgia edition quarter. It's edges were perfect and it had obviously sat lovingly in someones pocket and hadn't gotten around much. It almost made me want to despise the worn quarter....that is until I turned it over the crusty quarter and discovered its date....1978, the same year of my birth! This quarter is as old as I am. Here I am judging this dull and disgusting looking, old quarter when it isn't any older than me! Rather than admiring it for its years of travel and all of the good that it has obviously done, I was only looking on its outer appearance. I felt awful! So right then and there, I shoved the perky quarter into the peanut m&m slot, and lovingly placed the warn quarter into my pocket. Us oldies need to look out for each other.
4 comments:
Love your story!
I love that quarter too.
"Us oldies"....as if! I liked your story, too - but bc there is something in me that needs to point this out--- I think you should be glad you haven't gotten around as much as that gross coin!! =)
You crack me up!
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