The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 7, February 13, 2005, Article 26

HOW DID THAT GET IN THERE?

Roger deWardt Lane of Hollywood, Florida writes: "Last
week you listed a clean funny story, which made me realize,
I may have an family story of interest.

Four or five months ago, (I retired two years ago and wish
to keep busy with my hobbies, coins and computers) I
started writing a family history - My Life Story. I'm almost
finished with plans to burn CD-rom's for my 5 Grandchildren,
one Great Grand Daughter and My daughter. Since I have
scanned 1000 family pictures and added them thorough
hyperlinks to the story which is in html, this will save them
for them, as long as computers read CD-rom's. As you
mentioned in this past issue, slide projectors are almost
antiques now and this may happen to the CD-rom reader
in a computer some day.

One of my chapters is - I was a child of the depression,
but we never went hungry - The first story is copied
below.

My first dime.

For breakfast, quite often, my mother would make pancakes
or as we use to call them flapjacks. I was busy eating mine,
when I spoke up and said "look there is a dime in my pancake."
Sure enough, there it was, a nice shinny silver dime. So, the
next question was - how did a coin get in the flapjack?
Thinking for a moment, Mother can up with the answer.
Each day, a neighbor who had cows, would deliver a quart
of farm fresh milk. We had to put out yesterday's empty milk
bottle and leave a dime in it to pay for the new milk. Of
course they were supposed to remove the money and wash
the bottle before refilling it and delivering it to us or one of the
few nearby families. This time they did not take the dime out.
And I hope they did not forget to wash the glass bottle, either.
The milk was used by my Mother to make our breakfast
with a dime in the pancake.

Little did I know at the time, that many many years later,
collecting world dimes would become my passion.

[Roger is the author of Modern Dime Size Silver Coins
of the World on CD-rom and recipient of the NLG Best
Software on 2003. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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