I got one. Sort of. I think I cheated. Actually I kinda stole it. But then I paid for it. Double, because I felt bad. And I was drunk.
You see, Wifey and I decided a small weekend getaway was in order, so off we went to Orlando. Saturday morning I knew we had to get outta town, so we drove to O-town, with the intention of going to Sea World on Sunday (we didn’t make it). We went to the Quality Inn on I-Drive, got a room, and just went walking/shopping for the rest of the day. Saturday night, we went to Adobe Gilas at Pointe*Orlando for some live local music. Never the Hero was playing, and doing a hell of a job for all of the tourists there. That’s when I saw it. While sitting at the bar between the Brits and Canadians that left Jen The Bartender no tips, someone walked up, ordered drinks and left the $1.50 change sitting on the bar. I saw that both quarters were very shiny. I was (half-?) drunk, so I picked up one of the quarters. While Wifey was telling me to put it down – someone would think I was stealing JTB’s tips – I saw it was a Florida Quarter! I told Wifey “Hey!! It’s a Florida Quarter!!” She rolled her eyes and told me to put it down. I tried to show it to her, but she began looking in her purse to replace the quarter I “stole.” While digging through her change, she pulls out a substitute quarter – and it too was a Florida. “Hey!!” I said even more excitedly “Where’d you get that?” “Oh…” she said, “I don’t know – I didn’t even know I had it.” I got even more interested, and deduced that she must have gotten it here in Orlando, maybe one of our stops to get a soda, or – where did we stop for lunch? At that point she told me that maybe I had had enough to drink for the night. Anyway, I kept Jen The Bartender’s Florida Quarter (which came from her cash drawer, anyway). I kept Wifey’s Florida Quarter. I left JTB’s other shiny quarter (it too was a Florida), and added two regular boring uninteresting quarters in it’s place.
