you shoulda flipped a penny
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Growing up in chilliwack
We finished our newly discovered pomogrants , we let Tippy lick the last of them and then ran to the back of the post office and chucked the rinds in one of the animal pens at the auction barns ...that took only a few seconds ...Okay ...a few doors down and into the Hardware.....Hey Gary...my mom is in here...Hi mom....were here to sell our whiskey bottles.....yeah mom....where are you going....hmmm....okay, see you.....I guess she is in a hurry, Gary...yeah ...anyway the clerk counted out the bottles and gave me 16 cents. I asked for 2 nickles and six pennies so I could give Gary his half plus 2 cents for the pomogrant...Okay, but Im short 1 cent...naw, half a cent Gary....okay, but how do we do that....I asked the clerk ...he thought about that then said he was busy....Okay .....out we go...Tippy is waiting patiently at the door, drooling on the glass.....Well, if I give you a penny then I am short....well ya.... that's okay....o sure it is...naw, we can flip for it......what's that....flip ...flip.....if its heads I win and the other side you win.....win what.......who gets the extra penny ......oh.....when you are in grade two you get to know this stuff......right now I have the penny....but it cost me a nickle ...I know but I gave you 2 cents ...I know that...it's not enough.....ohh here, you take the penny ......okay ,that sounds more like it, now lets flip.......oh boy, okay.......I toss a nickle up and when it lands it rolls along the sidewalk ....we are not far behind it when it falls off and into a drain by the bike stand...... we are on our knees, looking at it ... not far down , but a grate covers the drain....you shoulda flipped a penny......hmmm, yeah, I guess.......Gary , you and Tippy stay here ...I am going to find something to get that 5 cents with. I took off down between the Post office and The Progress building and quickly checked all the garbage cans I could see along behind the stores.....no luck at first until I got to the U and I cafe....there was a couple of chopsticks in with their stuff....I got a brainstorm and lit off back to my pals......ok......hey,... it worked ...easy too...just pinched the sticks over that nickle and I was reasonably wealthy again.......I was so relieved I just gave the penny to gary....then we talked about what we were going to buy today.........
We finished our newly discovered pomogrants , we let Tippy lick the last of them and then ran to the back of the post office and chucked the rinds in one of the animal pens at the auction barns ...that took only a few seconds ...Okay ...a few doors down and into the Hardware.....Hey Gary...my mom is in here...Hi mom....were here to sell our whiskey bottles.....yeah mom....where are you going....hmmm....okay, see you.....I guess she is in a hurry, Gary...yeah ...anyway the clerk counted out the bottles and gave me 16 cents. I asked for 2 nickles and six pennies so I could give Gary his half plus 2 cents for the pomogrant...Okay, but Im short 1 cent...naw, half a cent Gary....okay, but how do we do that....I asked the clerk ...he thought about that then said he was busy....Okay .....out we go...Tippy is waiting patiently at the door, drooling on the glass.....Well, if I give you a penny then I am short....well ya.... that's okay....o sure it is...naw, we can flip for it......what's that....flip ...flip.....if its heads I win and the other side you win.....win what.......who gets the extra penny ......oh.....when you are in grade two you get to know this stuff......right now I have the penny....but it cost me a nickle ...I know but I gave you 2 cents ...I know that...it's not enough.....ohh here, you take the penny ......okay ,that sounds more like it, now lets flip.......oh boy, okay.......I toss a nickle up and when it lands it rolls along the sidewalk ....we are not far behind it when it falls off and into a drain by the bike stand...... we are on our knees, looking at it ... not far down , but a grate covers the drain....you shoulda flipped a penny......hmmm, yeah, I guess.......Gary , you and Tippy stay here ...I am going to find something to get that 5 cents with. I took off down between the Post office and The Progress building and quickly checked all the garbage cans I could see along behind the stores.....no luck at first until I got to the U and I cafe....there was a couple of chopsticks in with their stuff....I got a brainstorm and lit off back to my pals......ok......hey,... it worked ...easy too...just pinched the sticks over that nickle and I was reasonably wealthy again.......I was so relieved I just gave the penny to gary....then we talked about what we were going to buy today.........
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