Pennies From Somewhere
Pennies From Somewhere
Thought up: 4.6.02 – 1:04pm
Written: 4.9.02 – 11:23am
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I awoke from a terrible nights sleep at 7:13 a.m. on Friday, April 05, 2002. I hopped straight into the shower — wait, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself…
Last night I fell asleep after talking to a friend on the phone, and I took off my pants after maybe 5 minutes in my bed, because they were big and bulky and probably full of dirt that I didn’t want in my bed anyway. So I was just lying there in my work shirt and socks, no underwear talking to my friend. I got off the phone at about 11:06 p.m. and proceeded to brush my teeth and test my septic tank out to see if it was still working, if you know what I mean, and back to bed by maybe, 11:34 p.m.
Well, I tossed this way and tossed that way, remembering back to the days when I lived on Saipan. I just got an email that night from one of my friends that is still there. She is a Chinese girl that speaks fluent English, Chinese, and decent Japanese. Anyway, we always used to say, “ii oshiri” meaning, “nice butt” and we’d always bend down in front of each other, on purpose, and for 4 months straight, every time we’d see each other, “ii oshiri!” would be soon to follow.
aybe I was a bit perturbed that I wasn’t still on that tropical island, instead of being stuck here in the cold Montana weather, but that’s beside my point. The point here is that I tossed and turned all night long until my alarm interrupted my attempt to sleep at 7:04 a.m. (Why do I set my alarm to 7:04 a.m. and not just like 7? I dunno, maybe it’s because I was too lazy to switch ALL the way back, you know how those clock radios are, once you pass the number you want to set it to, you HAVE to go ALL the way back through EVERY number to get to yours. I just say screw it…)
Anyway, at 7:04 I hit the snooze button. Why? It’s not like I’m sleeping or anything, maybe it’s just because that’s the most annoying sound one can possibly hear, and that’s why the clock people made it that sound, must have taken a poll or something. Anyway, for nine more minutes I lay there just trying to figure out why I didn’t sleep very well, to no avail. Lots of random thoughts roll through my head, most of my best ideas come in the morning, but back to the start:
I awoke from a terrible nights sleep at 7:13 a.m. on Friday, April 05, 2002. I hopped straight into the shower and proceeded to bathe myself with a soapy lather, and shampoo, repeating if desired, and maybe 2 minutes into the shower whilst I wash my genitalia, a penny falls from somewhere. Not in the direction that it would fall if I was washing my frontside, but my backside it falls from, out of nowhere! It’s not like I knocked it free or something from my frontside, where I was washing, because that’s not from where it fell.
I turned around to examine the “lost treasure” to realize that it was a 2002 penny, so it couldn’t have been there for too long, and it smelled fine – (Of course, I was in the shower, and stuff is hard to smell in there, mostly it smells like soap and lathering utilities.) Anyway, I took that penny out with me from the shower and placed it on my shelf to be admired. I came to work and told my friends Shelly and Judy, and Judy said,
“I’ve heard of pennies from Heaven, but this is ridiculous!”
And we all had a good laugh. I remember seeing on T.V. one time where some lady cried diamonds out of her eyes, and that would be worth a pretty penny, I thought to myself, but for my pretty pennies to be worth anything like diamonds, I figured I’d have to have these “Pennies from Heaven” fall at a bit more frequent pace…
