Penny For Your Thoughts?

I pick up pennies. I do so without fail unless I see one where my life would be endangered should I pause to pick it up. Such as crossing a busy street.

 

See a penny, pick it up

All day long you'll have good luck!

 

My husband's son throws them away. This came up in conversation several weeks ago when he was over at our house for dinner. When I asked for clarification because, surely, I must have heard him incorrectly he said, that's what people do.

 

Is that really what people do? I can't seem to let go of this one. He came over for dinner again yesterday and I couldn't keep the thought out of my mind, that, this young man - this young man who is genetically related to my dear husband throws money in the garbage.

 

I think of all the poverty in the world, of all the penny drives and charities that gladly take your pennies and of the kazillion pennies I've rolled and deposited in the bank over my lifetime and I feel dismay and... repulsion at this young person's attitude and the derision in his voice when he clarified for me that people throw pennies in the garbage.

 

I said nothing in response to this because I've learned that offering any sort of guidance to the boy usually ends up hurting my husband: the boy will refrain from visiting because heaven forbid that we try to influence him in any way. So many things pop into my head in the form of my mother's voice and I silence them because there is nothing to be done and speaking of it just hurts my husband more. I can't see any of his father in the boy and I think the mother would consider that a triumph.

 

Am I completely out of touch with the world? Do people really throw these away?

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uROuR3Jm6M

 

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