Tell me it isn't so. Fox Sports.com is reporting that Brett Favre has made the decision to retire. How can this be? He engineered a 13-3 league record last year. The team went to overtime in the league Championship game. Favre is only 38 years old. He makes one million dollars every month. Packerland depends on him. He never misses a game. He is a gunslinger. He is tough! His back up, Aaron Rogers got to play a major part of one game recently and pulled a "hammie". He can't win games sitting on the bench. Well I won't believe it until Favre holds a news conference to officially announce his retirement. It is just a rumor. It can't be true. Gasp!
As you can tell, I don't always deal with change real well. It has been reported that the government is contemplating elimination of the penny. They have postphoned the decision but it is clear that it costs two cents to produce a penny that is no longer copper. I guess one way of looking at it is that every penny you now hold is worth two. Another gasp!
When I was a kid, the "mill" had been eliminated as a form of currency. It represented one tenth of one cent but with all the inflation it had become meaningless. Now it is 60-70 years later and the "mill" is still used by the oil companies to peg prices at the pump. You've seen the prices as $3.099 per gallon. Why would an oil company that is used to raping and pillaging the consumer for big bucks even consider posting the 9 mills at the end of the price. How insulting can you be? Call it what it is: $3.10 per gallon.
If the penny is dropped as one of our standard coins, my life falls apart. Years ago I would take 5 pennies and buy 5 pieces of bubble gum. I could put pennies in a machine and get prizes. Beserdicks General Store in downtown Plymouth thrived on "penny candy".
It gets worse. You can't say "a penny for your thoughts". It makes you sound cheap. Now you'll have to say "a nickel for your thoughts". Inflation does that. A package of terrible cookies can no longer sell at Aldi's for $.99 because it doesn't allow use of nickels.
You can't have a "penny jar" any more.
You'll have to wear out your pockets with nickels rather than pennies.
If you find a penny lying on the street, do you pick it up. It is hardly worth the effort. There is a common understanding that if you find a penny lying on the ground and it is "face up", someone is thinking of you (and something good will happen to you). Does the same philosophy apply to finding a nickel face up. I don't know!
So you see, this day is turning to sh--! First Brett Favre retires. Then the possibility of losing our penny. Did I mention my coffee pot ran over this morning.
I guess I'll adapt. What choice to I have? Actually I found a penny this morning (and it was face up) so the promise for something good is strong today. I'll just enjoy the moment.
Love,
Dad
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