On our way home spot a 25 kuruş coin on the sidewalk. It’s worth a quarter of a Turkish lira, and the Turkish lira is, of course, in freefall. This makes the coin worth approximately €0.007. Or a smidgen under 1p sterling. Or about one and a half Canadian cents. Not that the mint bothers producing one cent coins in Canada any more.
And so I, being old school - read just plain old - bend over to pick it up. See a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck. Except it doesn’t budge. Not just stuck but Krazy Glued or equivalent. Good joke on someone’s part and didn’t cost them much either. If there’s a hidden camera we don’t spot it. And bet, as the bloke who left it no doubt did, that no one under fifty even bent down.
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