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Old November 5, 2003, 18:42   #1
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What's the smallest amount of money you would pick up?
I went into the road in front of a bus today to pick up a 2p coin. Usually I lob 1p coins for some lucky 5 year old, finding one always used to make me day when I was that age.

Most people I know would pick up a 5p from the floor but find anything less too demeaning.

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Old November 5, 2003, 18:44   #2
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Old November 5, 2003, 18:46   #3
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Find a penny pick it up, then all day you'll have good luck...

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Old November 5, 2003, 18:47   #4
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Quarter. Mainly because they have so many uses (unlike pennies, which have very few)
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Anything... I am a poor spanish kid... even an rusted old penny...
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Old November 5, 2003, 18:51   #7
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1p = 1.7 American cents right now by the way.
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I pick everything up, unless they are suspiciously covered in slime. I'm about as poor as you can get.
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Nothing less than 100$ bill.







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10p.

Pennies and two pences I never spend, so have no reason to pick up. 5p pieces I would pick up if they weren't so damn small. Generally they evade my fingers, and take two or three attempts to pick up, making me look desperate or retarded.
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Old November 5, 2003, 19:12   #12
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I'd pick up anything silver usually, though I will pass it up sometimes too. (US currency)
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10p.

Pennies and two pences I never spend, so have no reason to pick up. 5p pieces I would pick up if they weren't so damn small. Generally they evade my fingers, and take two or three attempts to pick up, making me look desperate or retarded.
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Old November 5, 2003, 19:40   #14
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But then you would be exploiting the poor person who dropped it!
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Old November 5, 2003, 19:59   #15
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I picked up a quarter today. Only need $29.70 now for Civ3: Conquests
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But then you would be exploiting the poor person who dropped it!
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Old November 5, 2003, 20:39   #17
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I picked up a quarter today. Only need $29.70 now for Civ3: Conquests


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Old November 5, 2003, 21:11   #19
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I figure that if it takes 2 seconds to pick up a penny, that comes to $10.80/hr. Not awful, but sometimes I'll skip pennies. Anything larger I'll nab.
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I figure that if it takes 2 seconds to pick up a penny, that comes to $10.80/hr.
I think you'd get slowed down a bit after stuffing the first couple hundred into your pockets.
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anything silver Otherwise i feel snobby, like all the other baylorites
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I pick up quarters and sometimes dimes.

But I guess it could be worth bending over for any money.

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definately nothing less then a peg won (about a dime), especially since they look a lot like o peg won (a bit under half a dollar).
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I pick up quarters and sometimes dimes.

But I guess it could be worth bending over for any money.

Many a prostitute felt the same way.



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Me and a couple of friends were walking home from school one day and stumbled upon a 50 on the ground, 50 dollar bill that is not a half dollar, it took a second before one of my friends started chasing it (its alwasy windy up here) they eventually got it. Lucky bastard, I should have ran after it!


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WTF? A quarter is a jackpot. I'd pick up anything more than 1c.
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