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We take our kid to some concert, like the Wiggles but it isn’t the Wiggles. That band does their thing and leaves, and then They Might Be Giants comes on! My wife and I are very excited. The kid is nonplussed. (It’s funny because my wife actually doesn’t super care about TMBG, but anyway.) TMBG play a few songs, and my kid wants to leave but they bring out that big stick that John womps on the ground. I don’t know the actual name of it but I say, “We can’t leave—look they have the Wompin’ Stick! We gotta see that!” As the band is kind of setting up for the next song, John asks the audience some question. I answer him and he says, “Hey thanks, have this,” and tosses a coin. I try to catch it but can’t, so I bend down to find it. It turns out that what I thought was a commemorative TMBG coin is actually a bunch of change. I start picking up all the change and John comes over to help. He says, “If you look under there there’s a —” and I think that’s going to be the commemorative coin,…

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