I had this old Starbucks cup that I spent something like 12 months--give or take--throwing nickels into. Some of the nickels would bounce off the rim of the cup, but after a while I started to get pretty good at it and filled the damn thing, and before you knew it, there were nickels all over the desk and on the floor, so many nickels that I couldn't use my mousepad anymore and they would get into my shoes, and I thought about turning the nickels into a pair of sneakers or a winter coat, but I couldn't stop pitching them into the cup, and I figured I needed a new cup anyway and Starbucks sucks because it's like 20% coffee and 80% sugar, but anyway, and this is important, someone on the internet was wrong about something, I forget what, and it was imperative that I could somehow coerce this person into an argument with me so that I could prove not only how right I was--that I knew already, and I'm sure he knew, even though the argument was likely just about semantics and how different people look at things in different ways, and neither of them are wrong per se, just that some people are better at debating--what I really wanted was for him to marvel at how I was not only making different points, but better ones, and that it all mattered for whatever reason, and I had the nickels to prove it and I was willing to take a photograph of the nickels that I would only Photoshop in very minor ways, like making the nickels shinier, and then I bought supporter for an online text-based basketball game and got into another argument about how this thing called a training update was late, and this person who was so obviously wrong kept replying to me, so I replied to him back, and he tried to convince me he was a smartass but I knew better, and I still had the nickels, so there.