Snow Melt

See a Penny Pick it Up

Jalál (Glory), 7 Kalimat (Words), 165 BE – Saturday, July 19, 2008 about 7:25 PM PDT

See a penny, pick it up
And all the day you'll have good luck.
Old Saying

I didn't mention in yesterday's entry that I found two brand new pennies lying heads up on the ground. I found them in two different places when Mom and I went out yesterday. At the time I didn't think much of it, but today I'm wondering what the odds are of one person finding one penny lying heads up, much less two and in different locations.

Each time a penny is dropped it has a fifty percent chance of landing heads up and a fifty percent chance of landing tails up. Each time an individual goes to a store, he or she probably has one chance in two or three billion of find a penny lying either heads up or tails up. So what is the chance of one person going to two different stores and finding a penny in on the floor of each store, lying heads up.

An old superstition says that a penny lying heads up is good luck and a penny lying tails up is bad luck. If that superstition is true, does finding two pennies lying heads up mean double good luck for a day or two days of good luck. All right, I'm not superstitious, so the good/bad luck thing doesn't worry. I'm just intrigued by the fact that I found two brand new pennies, each in a separate location, lying heads up on the same day.

I put the penny in the "kitty" of a project I've wanted to start again. Finding the pennies means I can, not only, start the project, but also that I begin the project on "level" two. Right now, I'll call the project Snow's Penny Project and I'll put updates in my blog about it.