How. Very. Random.

[devi]

I was cleaning the sink and noticed there was something rattling about in the sink plughole. On closer inspection I found it was a coin. Which is an odd thing to have in the plughole of your sink anyway, but this one was a strange colour - kind of yellowish - and had twelve corners.

Taking it out, I found it was a threepenny piece. From 1944.

This coin is the same age as my mum. How on earth did it end up in our sink?

Comments

[casparian.livejournal.com]

Gosh. how old is your house, older than that age? Maybe it's been in there for a long time but has only recently become dislodged?

It could be worth a bit of money (hehe, it's a coin!), check ebay!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I don't know how old the house is (60s? 70s?) but I think it's quite a bit younger than the coin. And I don't see any obvious cracks or niches where it could have been hiding. Curious indeed...

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The house dates from 1972.

I found it at some point when I had the washing machine out. How it got into the space originally, I don't know.

And, being me... Throw it out? Pah! So it's been kicking around on the windowsill for ages.

Sorry to be so mundane. Feel free to delete this comment, and go back to more fantastic options :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I expect you to go around deliberately planting mysterious objects for bluedevi to find now, after so mercilessly raining on this one.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I think going around planting small, incongruous, mysterious objects in people's houses could be a fun hobby, just in general.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Such as undyingking himself? (Although I suspect our perspectives may vary on his smallness.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Or it could be a fun way of getting locked up...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

No, y'see, I still find that interesting. The house was built in '72. The decimal currency changeover had happened in '71. Which makes it seem more strange that a '44 coin would have ended up behind the washing machine. Not very strange, but still...

There was a bag of old Irish money in my belongings for quite a while after the euro changeover. I kind of hope some of it fell down behind things to mystify people in future years.

[metame.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought the usual way threepenny bits make it into houses is for putting them in christmas puddings. And then finding them, putting them in pockets, washing them, letting them go through washing machine filters and moving out.

I guess the house has been lucky for quite a few years now...