Back on track

Have you ever put a penny on the railroad tracks to see if it would either

1. Flatten the penny
2. Make the train jump the tracks

There was a set of tracks just a couple blocks away from the house I grew up in and every time we would either walk to the store or to the swimming pool we would put a few pennies on the tracks to see just how flat they would get.

Trains would come down the tracks, we could hear the whistle blowing as it crossed 31st street but we never found any of the pennies. It never stopped us from putting new ones down on the next trip.

Is there a moral to this story? But of course there is.........

1. If we hadn't put all those damn pennies on the tracks we would have somewhere around $6.38 right now
2. We're lucky we never found those pennies since it's illegal to deface US Currency, and everyone knows how law abiding I am
3. We never stopped trying with those pennies, we never gave up, we hoped for the outcome we wanted, it never came about but we NEVER GAVE UP

You don't always get the results you want or expected, but if you give up, you will never get the results you expected. and if you never try..........well, we know the results you'll get from that one.