observation

If you just look hard enough, you can find some really valuable stuff that people just leave lying around. For instance, I found a spanish doubloon lying right in the middle of the road! I don't understand what kind of person would carry something worth that much money. Just leave it in a bank or something. Anyway, so I picked it up and brought it home.

Then my little brother says that it's just a squashed bottle cap. I was crushed! All my dreams of fame and fortune were blasted out of the water.
And in that instant that he told me that it was nothing more than trash, I saw (I saw!) the old coin lose its golden luster, shed its ancient metallic weight, and turn into a plain old bottle cap that had been thrown out of a car and left to die in the middle of the hunting path of those giant, rumbling, artificial creatures known as cars.

I wish I hadn't found out.