Caveat: Every Penny Counts

While Jan was cleaning a small corner of the store yesterday, I looked down and said, “Oh, look, a penny!”

There had been a penny lying on the floor there, under a merchandise display. I picked it up and looked at the penny. I was surprised.

“I think we need to clean the store more often,” I said to Jan.

“What do you mean?” She asked.

I showed her the penny. The mint date on the penny was “1925.”

“That penny’s been lying there for a long time, maybe.” We laughed about it.

I mean, the store’s building is at most 40 years old. I think younger than that, even. And the gift store has only occupied the space for about 10 years, I think. Maybe 12. So someone must have dropped the penny there more recently than 1925. It was just amusing to imagine it lying there for 96 years.

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