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What I think when I see these things

= Oh a penny…! Lucky. But only if it’s head’s up -better let that one slide. Who made up that rule anyway? 

  = Oh a penny…! Lucky. But it’s probably dirty. If I really needed luck today I’d pick it up. (On the off-chance I pick it up, I check to see if it was made the year I was born. If not, I feel let down. It has never happened. That’s probably why I hardly ever pick up pennies: They ALWAYS dissappoint me. The chances of it having been created in 1982 are probably more remote than I realize.)

 = Is this a quarter?! Nope, just a nickel! I should have looked more carefully beofore picking it up. Oh well!

  = Oh, it’s a dime. I’d pick it up but it’s superskinny and, thus, hard to swiftly and discretely remove from the sidewalk or the scummy tile floor of the Asian convenience store on Lexington and 70/71st. $.10 is probably not worth it. (I usually regret this at least two times during the next hour and a half).   

 =GUMBALL!

 = Words could not express my excitement. A word to all you penny-picker-uppers: This is what luck looks like.

OK I’ll be the next (and second to last) one in my family to start this blog thing. In the past I’ve seen other people’s blogs and thought, what the hell is wrong with them? Why do they think people want to read anything they have to say? But the other day I thought of a few reasons why I should start a blog:

1) I can keep a record of all the annoying/funny/weird things that happen (like the time a homeless guy called me a “fucking slut bitch,” or my conversation with a cab driver about shooting a porn in his backseat -luckily I was sitting shotgun). 

2) I can use it to fill up any small amount of spare time I have (right now I’m at work, the place where I ironically have the most idle time).

3) Everyone else in my family is doing it and, like Rachealleah, I don’t like feeling left out.

So my blog may not be any more insightful or interesting than the blogs I’ve scoffed at in the past, but I’m sure I’ll think it is. And I guess that’s all that matters.