Sure...now that I need them, do you
think I can find them?
Nope.
Those of you who read this on a daily
basis may recall a blog I wrote a couple of months ago about how
British one pound coins are changing, and how the two that I have in
my possession need to get used during our upcoming layover in London.
If you don't use them by November, they're no longer any good,
except, maybe, as little trinkets you throw in a fish tank.
It's ether use them or lose them.
I wrote the blog about the two coins,
even including a scanned picture of them. But as I'm starting to get things
together for the journey, what's the one thing I can't find? Yup;
the two one pound coins, the one thing I really can't save for a
future trip because the only thing they'll be good for after November
is fish tank trinkets.
Sigh.
I have no idea what I did with the
coins after I wrote the blog. I thought I had given them to Loraine
for safekeeping; that would've been the smart thing to do. But she
says she doesn't have them, and a quick search of both my travel
stuff and the places in my office where I might have left them (ie
the bed of my scanner) have proved futile.
They've disappeared. Maybe they really
DO wanna reside in a fish tank.
I'm sure I still have the coins
somewhere. I'm sure they're shoved in a drawer of stuff or buried
deep inside the pockets of a pair of pants I haven't worn since
April. So I'm confident I still have the two coins. That's not the
point, though. What's the good of having the coins if I can't find
them and then use them before the November deadline? Sure, the two
coins are worth less than three bucks, so if I don't find them it
won't be the end of the world.
It's just the principle of the thing.
So keep your fingers crossed that
sometime in the next three weeks I stumble across them, and am able
to pick up a can of European Dr. Pepper or something at Heathrow.
Otherwise, if I ever do find them the coins will only be good as
trinkets in a fish tank. And I don't have any fish.
Sometimes, I amaze even myself. And
usually it's not in a good way.
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