When I was 7 back in 1957 there used to be a carnival about a block away from my house came around almost every month in the summer, if you are old enough you will remember them, it is the ones where you would pitch penny's to get some glass, "think that might be where the phrase carnival glass came from" they also had this wheel with numbers on it they would spin and you could put a nickle on a number if that number came up you won a silver dollar.
I watched for a little while and saw how it was working, I had a nickle left from the about 25 cents I had to spend, so I was standing there watching with all these tall men standing there putting their nickels down, I wanted to try it but a nickle was a lot back then, and it was my last money I had, so the one time when the wheel stopped I looked and it was the number I was standing right in front of, so I quick laid my nickle down, when the man came to me he asked did you have that nickle there before I spun the wheel, before I could say anything all these big guys standing there said give the kid his dollar, I guess he did not want to argue with them so he gave it to me. Don't remember what the date was, but it was a Morgan.
I took off and ran home I played with that silver dollar the rest of the day {Had never seen one before}, the next day I took it to school with me to show all my friends, I was sitting on the cement step in front of the school looking at it, and it slipped out of my hand and rolled into a small horizontal opening in the cement step "just big enough for it to fit", I tried for years to get it out but just pushed it down further, the school is still there and whenever I get back I always go by it, hoping it may be closed so I could go pry up the brick and retrieve the silver dollar. Would probably have to give it to a charity now to clear my conscious.
Lesson learned if you cheat to get something chances are you will loose it plus more ;-)
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Posted 01/14/2010 8:16 pm
