This prompted a few questions: Where did this saying come from? Why do I even know it? Why do people drop money on the ground and decide to leave it there? Am I the only one who would stop in the middle of the street with cars coming in both directions to pick up a coin...especially a mere copper coin?
Perhaps it's because my employer pays me in peanuts but I always stop to pick up change that I find on the ground. Yep, that dirty money that's sitting in a puddle of mud? I'm the girl that digs in there and retrieves it.I, by no means, would consider myself lucky but one time I found $60 in the parking garage at the mall so my eyes have been trained to look down...just in case it were to happen again. (It hasn't.)
So, back to this saying..."Find a penny, pick it up all day long you'll have good luck". Clearly, this is something my mother ingrained into my head as a young girl. Will I really have good luck if I take it off the street and throw it into my purse?
Is this like, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back"? As far as I know, me doing so has not resulted in my mother's physical health.
The only good luck I found this week because of my "lucky" pennies is that I (broke and) fixed the copier at work and (started and ultimately) won an email war with a customer. Is this the type of luck one can expect?
I'm looking for something great and unexpected. I'm looking for the luck that brings along a job promotion...or extra vacation time...or a free drink...or a great sale...or a refund check in the mailbox...
Some say that one can get rid of bad luck by dropping a penny on the ground. The bad luck will follow the coin and be acquired by the next person to pick it up.
I bet I picked up those coins. Just my luck.
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