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trying to impress a girl is often followed by "hold my beer"

Unfortunately (fortunately?), I don't have any cool stories like that.  As noted, Louisiana girls weren't impressed by me, so I didn't try.  Texas girls were, without me actually doing anything, so I didn't try. 

I have a number of friends with some hilarious tales of trying to impress girls, though. 

Where I can relate is with young guys attempting to impress their friends.  Me and one of my oldest buddies in Baton Rouge, I am sometimes amazed we grew up and didn't die with some of the stuff we got ourselves into.  We didn't even have youtube back then to give us ideas/how-to's on stuff we definitely should've stayed away from.  My stepsons occasionally tell us about things they did when they were 10-12ish with the pool of wisdom that is the internet at their disposal, and I'm similarly amazed that they didn't die either.  Or kill somebody else. 

Heh.  Actually, there is another story I can tell here:

I am generally not a superstitious person.  Not a big believer in the paranormal.

But.....

I will NEVER flip a quarter again for the rest of my life.
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Back in college, my friends and I would hang out at a little snack shop in the basement of McCutheon Hall at Purdue.  It was the "McCutheon Grill", and thus we were the "Grill Rats".  We were there most nights, either hanging out, playing euchre, or doing homework / studying (even though most of us didn't actually live in McCutheon).

Anyways, one of my friends was short a quarter to buy a grilled cheese sandwich, so as a joke, I said, "Well, I'll flip you for it".  He "won" so I gave him the quarter and he paid for his sandwich.

The next day, his girlfriend dumped him.  Mostly due to the fact that she was actually married (and had never told him) and she was just feeling too guilty about it.  He had already been having a bad day considering his alarm hadn't gone off that morning and he had missed a test.  There was some other thing that went wrong too that I don't recall, but I do remember him telling me that his life had pretty much gone to crap since I gave him that quarter.

We joked about it a bit, and another friend offered to take a flipped quarter from me to "transfer the bad luck away from friend #1".  So, I flipped a quarter and gave it to friend #2.  The next day was particularly cold (this was January, IIRC).  Friend #2 needed groceries and went out to his car to drive over to Lafayette where the nearest Marsh was.  He got about half way there when his car started emitting black smoke everywhere.  Turns out, the cold weather somehow caused his engine block to crack.  Whole new engine required - $1800.

It became a bit of a running gag after that.  People wanted to test it and see if it was true.

Friend #3 got a flipped quarter:  The next day while driving, he tried to stop at a stop light but his car slid on the ice, and he t-boned a cop car.

Friend #4 got a flipped quarter:  He was a grad student working on his thesis.  Two days after receiving the quarter, his professor adviser dropped dead and the other faculty weren't willing to continue the existing thesis premise, so he had to start over from scratch.

Friend #5 got a flipped quarter:  The next day his mother wasn't feeling well, went into the hospital and needed an emergency hysterectomy. 

That was the point where I cut it off.  People were getting hurt.

There is a rational part of my mind that realizes that these were probably all coincidences and that there really isn't anything cursed about my hands.

But I'm not going to take any chances.

Just in case.

So yeah, haven't flipped a quarter in over 25 years.
(for the record, other denominations like dimes, pennies, etc. have no effect).

Was it the same quarter? 

Seems like by #3 or #4 they would've stopped taking the challenge.