Silver Dollar Dreams...

That's what I like about wandering around the Upper East Side, you never know what will happen or what you will find. As I stumbled along East End Avenue I noticed a shine in a small hose created puddle that was tinged with an oily rainbow. I caught the sparkle in the corner of my eye. I leaned down and came face to face with a silver dollar that was heads down. Although it was heads down, I picked it up anyways, even if there was some bad luck associated with picking up any coin when the head is down. I remembered once when I was out with my daughter, she was about five years old at the time, we came upon a penny that was heads down and she went to pick it up and told her it was bad luck to pick up a coin that was heads down. She thought that was dumb but didn't pick it up. We walked on and about twenty feet from the coin she turned around walked back to the penny lifted it up and put it back down. When she caught up to me I asked what she had done? She said she had turned the coin so the head was up so the next person who saw it could pick it up and have some good luck. I'll remember that for the rest of my life. The silver coin I had found was so worn the date was unrecognizable, most of the face was just shiny with no In God We Trust left to be seen. I looked around to see if anyone was looking for the coin, there was no one, and there were no signs on light posts with distressed pleadings for the return of the coin. I wondered if I should go to the police but the more I looked at the coin, the more I realized it was worth nothing, with much of the face rubbed away and there being a slash on the back of the coin. I decided not to turn it in. I flipped the coin and rubbed the face imagining this was some one's good luck coin that had literally been rubbed to the nub. I put the coin in my pocket and wondered if it would be lucky for me and then I started to dream lucky silver dollar dreams...