Everyone knows what a quarter is. It is one of the simplest forms of currency in the U.S. Most people simply use them to pay for things or they collect them. But all those people that are so narrow minded don't see the endless possibilities of uses for quarters.
A good friend of mine and I were feeling in a sort of "think-outside-the-box" mood, the other day. So we dug in our pockets to see what we could do. My friend found a quarter. All I had was some pocket lint and a pencil, so we chose to use the quarter instead. We started spinning it on top of some lockers and trying to find a pattern of which side it landed on most after spinning. We spun it multiple times, both clockwise and counter-clockwise, but it usually ended up being Tails. Next we added another variable. Starting the rotations of the spin on the locker-tops, we would then let it drop to the floor and continue revolving.
Fascinated by such a simple object, doing a very basic movement, we came up with many more cool ideas of what to do with the quarter. Eventually we got so far as to bowling. I put my pencil on the floor and we would try and hit it from some distance away. You may think that this is an easy task, just like we did at first, but it proves to be very difficult. Getting the quarter to stay in a straight line is the trick. It always seems to curve on direction. The last activity that we were able to complete was a "rolling distance contest." I'm sure that most of you at one point have done this. You take the quarter and roll it as far as you can. What I thought was interesting about that, is that you loose sight of the quarter very easily. Once you loose track of it, you occasionally catch a shimmer of light reflecting off that quarter down at the other end of the hallway. (At least that's where we were situated)
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