This one has bothered me for thirty years. Yes, he makes a good case for the monetary value of picking up a penny, but Cecil completely ignores the intangible way that picking up a single penny can improve your fortunes. After all,
I know that some will object, saying that because it does not rhyme it cannot possibly be true, while others will claim that it is only true if the penny is found heads up, but this is a belief that goes back at least as far as my childhood, so I am invoking an argumentum ad antiquitatem in support of its validity.
So why did Cecil ignore this ancient belief? If nothing else, it would stretch his response beyond the 85 words he wrote. Or did he write about it, but was censored by the penny pinchers at the Яeader? As a loyal reader who has let this stew for three decades before bothering to ask the question I demand an answer IMMEDIATELY! :mad:
I once bent down to pick up a penny and a half bottle of whisky slipped from my inside pocket and smashed. If a Scots man drops a penny it usually hits him on the back of his neck.
Well, you can’t be a vagrant then because you have a visible means of support. “See, officer? I just found this penny and I expect to find another any day now.”
Wife had friends who lived near an unsupervised automatic toll booth in the sticks. When they were out of beer money they’d put a plastic cup in the throat of the toll machine and come back a few hours later to find it full of change.