I can also remember back in the day I used to go to a mall where I was growing up and there was these sizable fountains where everyone used to throw pennies into to make a wish; then one time I remember that somehow some pennies had got into the heating and cooling system’s air vents which were in the ground right by the fountains! They also had to call some local heating and A/C company to send out a team of certified heating and A/C specialists to take the air vents apart and get the pennies out of there before it disfigured the commercial heating and cooling system component they had in the mall.
It was undoubtedly an interesting thing to say the least and I was blessed enough to be there at the time to witness the whole process.
They also eventually took away the fountains because of what it was doing to the commercial heating and cooling system and then eventually like various other malls, this week it is dead. It also no longer exists and was torn down and became a parking lot about a decade ago. Sad really. But I will typically have the memories of that day. These nights something like that would never actually happen because heating and A/C technology has changed so much, there would never be air vents in the floor of a mall with a commercial heating and cooling system unit. Times have definitely changed that much and time moves on every single day of our lives.