# The Pennies by the Elevator **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pennies-by-the-elevator/100632 "2002-03-28T21:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pennies-by-the-elevator/100632/1 "2002-03-28T21:53:22Z")
A while back I was heading down to lunch. In my jacket pocket, I find a penny. Now I don’t care for pennies, but I recognize their value as omens of good fortune. So I tend to put them in places where people can find them and thus enjoy some good luck. I work on the fifth floor, and the panel for the elevator-summoning buttons juts out a little from the wall, forming a little ledge. So I placed my penny on the ledge and went to lunch. An hour later, not only was the penny still there, but two others had joined it. When I went home that afternoon, there were seven of them. The next day, I thought about doing this with twenty dollar bills, but decided against it. When I left that day, there was a penny on the ledge. I seem to have started something. About once a week there’s a penny, or sometimes several pennies there. I haven’t put one there in some time. I heard a dime showed up a few days ago. Yesterday there were eleven pennies and a peanut(!). No responses expected. This was a MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pennies-by-the-elevator/100632/2 "2002-03-28T21:59:13Z")
I love that story (and I do the same thing with pennies… only mine always just get picked up–Abe never gets friends…)!!! You gotta go for the gold. Come on. Do a dollar.😃