Do you pick up pennies?
 

I mean, sure you do. But...what if the penny is tails-up?

Heads-up is good luck, or so I heard, somewhere, at some point.

I suggest that, furthermore, tails-up pennies must be bad luck. Right?

Now I know that picking up a tails-up penny won't physically cause bad things to happen to me, but the damn power of suggestive thinking is there, and I don't want to have to worry that I will subconsciously sabotage myself due to an over-abundance of these bad penny-signals. Everything is this complicated, to me.

Now here's a real quandary:
I saw two pennies on the ground. One tails-up, one tails-down. What did I do?

I didn't pick up either of them. The good one was tainted by the bad one. I guess that makes me a glass half-full kind of guy.

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Supplemental. How much money am I losing out on, in a lifetime, by refusing to pick up tails-up pennies? Maybe one of you smart-types who know all about math and whatnot.

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Bandwidth is cheap. Psychoanalysis, however, is not.

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Coins found in the street are the thoughts of angels.
If someone who loved you died and is thinking of you in heaven, they will send a coin for you to pick up, so you know that love never really dies.

You're thwarting the divine plan by not picking them up, Flint.

See a penny / pick it up
And all day / you'll have good luck.

I learned that before I heard the 'heads' and 'tails' difference. They all spend, so if they're not in goo I pick 'em up.

All found pennies are good. Heads up, heads down, they're all lucky.

Just make sure you wash your hands, afterwards. You don't know where it's been. Somebody could have spit on that patch of sidewalk.

You are nuts.

What if the penny is on its side? Huh? then what?

I think you've stumped them.

If it is on its side, time stops for everybody except the person who tossed that coin.

I don't pick them up. But since our days in college we have always superglued a dime or nickle to the step outside of our house or on the driveway. People go to great lengths to try and pick them up. It is really funny. If they do get them up I just replace them in another place with another one.

Merry pranksters glued coins to the table top of a restaurant where I once worked. Watching customers as they tried to move them (innocently or to steal), and lose themselves in the challenge, and then walking up to the table was fun. It got old fast, though.

I was sitting in the front passenger seat looking out the window the other day while stopped at a stop light. Just as the light changed and we started to move, I noticed a dollar bill in the snow in the gutter. I yelled "HEY! A dollar bill!!" but Red didn't stop. I was bummed for the rest of the afternoon.

It was probably just a religious tract, anyway.

When I redid the hardwood floors at my previous house, I put a $5 bill under the varnish on the living room floor near the front door.

People were always trying to pick that up.

Homeless Guy got a bag of shredded money in the mail, from Jesus. He's always mailing HG something. He should mail him a job.

Not you HLJ...the REAL Jesus.

Uh, I don't pass up picking up money. Period. Enough of those and I can pay my mortgage.

Alternate thread: Do you pick up prostitutes?

Alternate thread: Do you pick up Pennys?

Do you pick up Penis?

.....well, do you?

None of the above.

Except pennies. In fact I shall be selling a bunch of old pennies on eBay any day now (View seller's other items)

I think this inline thing is a much better way of riffing on the thread title than clone threads.