> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Johansson
> Quoting li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET:
>
> [snip]
> > Okay, here's the question o' the day: What's the smallest
> > denomination coin you'll bother to pick up from the ground after
> > dropping it?
>
> Depends a bit on circumstances, but generally I'd pick up any
coin. This has
> more to do with compulsive-obsessive disorder than with the coins'
value.
I can't give absolutes, but quarters will get picked up. Nickels or
dimes, maybe, depending on how much of a hurry I'm in. Pennies
aren't worth aggrativing my sciatica over. The only exception
being in the house where always pick up coins so they won't get
stuck in the vacuum.