The Dime Ghost
I am going to tell you a true story... Since my husband and I have been married we have had what we call a "dime ghost". This "ghost" leaves dimes all over for us (pretty sweet, right?) I first noticed this oddity when we lived in our condo shortly after our honeymoon. I was home alone, the door was locked, I was on the phone looking out our patio door when all of a sudden I felt a tinge on my back, like I had been hit with something small. "That can't be, I'm the only one home" I thought to myself, yet I turned around and on the ground there was a dime. After that incident, I started recalling all the dimes I was finding, joking about how most find pennies on the ground, but I find dimes, and so does Brian. I even once found a dime stuck to my back - really not sure how that one happened. Now, this didn't just happen then, or in that one place... we have moved quite a bit... 8 places in 5 years to be exact, some places were in different states, we found an abundance of dimes at each of these places. For a while we thought the dimes were leading us somewhere, giving us clues on the direction our life was to take. When times were tough, we likened the dimes to leading us to failure. Honestly, I don't know what the dimes mean, or if there is any meaning at all. In the 3 months we have lived in this apartment, we have found $3.00 in dimes - that's 30 dimes! We are living in the 21st century as well as you - its not often we have cash, we mostly use our debit cards, the times we use cash, it usually goes straight into the tip jar at the coffee shop here in town. I don't know what reasonable explanation there is, but It rains dimes around us. We had taken a family trip to Los Angeles a few years back, none of us had been to California before, so we explored a bit. We drove down to Laguna Beach, parked in the lot next to Coast Hardware (we were in search of a beach ball) when I opened my door, what was on the ground? A dime. We ended up opening an art gallery in Laguna Beach last year, when my husband went to scout a location, he parked, opened his door and - yep - a dime was on the ground right outside the door. While living in California, we saved up all of our found dimes and bought a scratch off ticket, thinking maybe it would be lucky - it wasn't. We had to get the dimes changed into dollars, which then the register wouldn't open - so it was a whole ordeal, then the dollar got stuck in the machine, the card that eventually came out was ripped in half, and we won nothing. In a way, I think this signifies the importance on not gambling with our future, and admittedly, that is what our venture there was - a gamble. Another strange theory of ours - well mine - on our honeymoon, we went to Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the end of the tour, we walked past a rock formation in the cave with coins all around it and chicken wire surrounding it. The guide told us there were 2 women who originally came to that cave, 50 years ago or whatever, both of them were lonely single women. They tossed coins at the rock, made a wish they would find husbands... the coins landed and years later they both returned with their husbands. It was said if the coin lands, you will find your mate, but if the coin falls - your love wont last (don't quote me exactly, its been 5 years since I was there). Well... Brian decided our honeymoon was the best time to seal our eternity together and land that coin on the rock. He flicked a dime... it rolled off. So he tried his luck again, and again - each time missing. I have wondered if the dime ghost is the spirit of those women leading us toward destruction, this is why I am cautious about the whole "dime sign". Who knows. Anyway, I bring this up, because on a whim today, I googled "dime ghost" and there is a whole phenomenon about dime ghosts! So we are not the only ones with this kooky idea. Whatever it may be, we now save our dimes in a mason jar - maybe we will build our fortune one dime at a time.
