I already told this story to the two people who might read this website but anyway…Commerce Bank has this new thing called “Penny Arcade” and it’s great. I just read this article about pennies and I realized that I had quite a lot of pennies. My first attempt to use up my change was by riding the bus around Brooklyn with a sandwich baggie full of loose change. This got old pretty fast and made me feel even more unemployed than I already am. Also, bus drivers hate it when you jam up the coin slot, on the flip side, passengers love it when you give everyone a free ride. Then I thought I would try to find those rolls and roll up my change and then bring it to the bank, but I wasn’t sure that banks still do that. Then I thought I would look for a Coinstar, which is that kiosk that charges some percentage of your change to change it into useable currency, while I was looking for a Coinstar I walked by Commerce Bank and there was this big thing with lights that looks like a whack-a-mole called Penny Arcade and it turns out that Penny Arcade is just like Coinstar but free! And if you guess how much money you have in change within $1.99 of the actual amount, you win a prize. Well, I guessed within 58 cents of how much money I had in change (I had 15.42 which I have since already spent on laundry and a bath for Gilda) and I was so excited to stand in line at the bank and collect my prize. I was imagining something really awesome like a Commerce Bank fleece vest but of course when I got to the front they informed me that they had run out of prizes and they gave me this crappy plastic coin bank, and the last thing I need right now is a receptacle for my coins…Ran out of prizes is the story of my life.