As I walked across a parking lot I spied a few small, odd shapes taped on the inside of the driver's side window of a small car. I investigated further and discovered that a nickle had been taped to the inside of the driver's side window using HVAC tape (This is actual duct tape, not the polyethylene coated Duct Tape that people use to tape together nearly everything except actual heating ducts, as actual duct tape is heat-resistant and common Duct Tape is not).
The nickle was not only taped to the inside of the driver's side window, the eyes of Thomas Jefferson on the nickle had been outlined with a fine tip black pen. This struck me as unusual.
Was this a nickle intended for use in a parking meter should four minutes of parking be necessary and the driver had no other change to use?
Was this a nickle intended to be handed to one of the many, many people who stand at intersections in and around Denver with signs proclaiming themselves to be victims of unfortunate circumstances and anything will help, God bless?
Was this a nickle that had been rolling around on the floor of the car in an annoying manner and the driver just said, "Okay, to hell with that roly-poly nickle. it's going up on the window"?
Was this a nickle intended to now be regarded as art, as it now was being presented out of it's usual context and therefore is open to a whole new world of interpretations? (That would not be unusual among Denver's pretentious academic-art environment).
Was this a nickle with some sort of secret meaning that only the driver and other members of a secret cabal understood, and when other driver's who were in the know passed each other on the street they could readily acknowledge one another?
Was this nickle a more universal symbol with a meaning understood by many, but one that I was just not hip to, like, "Driver carries no change...except this nickle"?
Or was it just a nickle...randomly taped to the inside of a car window?
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