It's a strange thing. I was thinking, just literally a week ago, that it would be nice to find one of the classic subway tokens lying around somewhere to make into a pendant - and made a mental note to check my older jewelry boxes and other places that might have that type of accumulated stuff. Then, me being me, I promptly forgot about it.
Cleanup day in our neighborhood was this past Saturday, and my husband and I were moving our old loveseat, which I'd owned for over a decade and which had seen better days, to the curbside for pickup. When we came back, I found what I thought at first was a coin left over from my husband's days of traveling to China on business in the doorway. In fact, it turned out to be the genuine article - a New York City Transit Authority token. Apparently, it had been stuck in the loveseat's cushions for the past decade. The weird thing is, I bought the piece of furniture after moving to D.C. - but it was at a time I was still traveling to Manhattan fairly frequently. What are the odds?
4 comments:
This is such a cool story! It's always interesting to see what happens when you put a wish out into the universe. It works for bigger things, too. Dream big, Melissa!
Serendipity!
I have a growing collection of subway and transit tokens. I love 'em!
Enjoy the day!
Erin
coolness! i love the whole 'putting it out into the universe' thing - have fun with it! hey, maybe you should get some molding compound so that you can have it more than once!
That's absolutely beautiful! IT really is kismet! It's a lucky talisman for sure! (I miss the tokens. The Metrocards, as convenient as they are, aren't the same.)
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