Gawd...i think i would've just left it there...unless you had a lot of cash :)

Funny tale SC, but let`s face facts - your friend is not quite the full shilling, is he? Not the sharpest tool in the box.

Apart from firing his wallet into the shit, he seems to love the stench, as he took along a book to read. Neither being signs of a great intellect.

I just hope he washed his hands after that sorry episode. I certainly would not like to be the cop that pulls him over for speeding and has to check his licence details. Or the poor saps he paid those shitten dollar bills to.

You had me laughing, SC. I'm with TB. I would've thought that, if the the smell was so horrendous, that you wouldn't bring anything that would tempt you to linger.

As for the wallet, better to let it rest at Davey Jones' locker. There's nothing so valuable in mine that I couldn't live without it. Not even my Xena Warrior Princess Fan Club membership card.
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I wouldn't have felt comfortable EVER handling the contents of that wallet again. I guess the folding cash could be washed...I wonder what happens to a credit card or a driver's license if they're soaked in bleach? That's about the only way I'd consider keeping my cards.

I would have fished it out. It's a real PITA to replace everything.
Producing waste since 1967

I agree Miss Simone hopefully the air kinda got rid of the smell. Hmmm I wonder if Febreze would work on the stench of any paper bills. Hmmmm I may have to experiment sometime!
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Literal dirty money!

thats another reason for me to never go camping
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Haha, awesome story! I can't even enter an outhouse that smells rotten, let alone dig in the hole, and retrieve something! Even if i got my stuff back, I'd replace it as fast as i could. I suppose the plastic credit cards wouldn't be too bad to keep once washed, but paper would absorb the poo water. What a nightmare!

I'd have started calling my cards in lost immediately...

...except I'd have probably dropped my cell phone down there, too.

GGG is right. I have a file at home with photo copies of all-the important "things" in my wallet- stored in a safe place and updated regularly. Also program your card #'s in your cell phones, I-phones... so you can call and say immediately, - IT's just LOST.

Also, GGG, make your husband carry a "back up" cell pone (i-phones are great!) programmed the same way. Calmly go up to him and say- I lost my wallet/or purse - (you might have to say to him- do you always have to fart when I'm talking to you?)

F2401, I hope that you're advising storing the Customer Service tele. no.s for the CC companies and not the actual CC numbers with security code. If it's the former, that's okay but if it's the latter, you could be in a world of hurt should you lose your phone. (I'm famous for losing my cell on mass transhit. I think I've done that 4 times now in the last 5 years. The last time was 2-3 months ago.)
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Yes, Deja- just the customer service tele #'s... call them and just report-stolen. Also, you should have a "back up" system. Everyone can make up there own system.

Good advice about calling in lost credit cards quickly, Frank. I've heard of cases where people have lost their cards (or had them stolen) and unauthorized, big-time activity starts showing up on those cards within 1 or 2 hours.

My husband did that once with his "roll on the roll."

He hates campground TP and carries his own roll everywhere. I tell him he looks like an idiot taking his own shitwipe into the outhouse, but I digress...

He dropped it into the porta-shitter at a campground once. He reminded me of a little kid whose puppy had run away. Complained the whole weekend...it was great!

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No no, honey. Kitties don't sit on the potty.

Although, Fudgie, I rather think the shit-soaked credit cards were fairly secure.

Make sure The Feds are not around.You could have been charged with money laundering when you cleaned those bills.

As I recall, most of the items ended up getting replaced. However, the money is probably still circulating! Your mother always said, "Don't put your fingers in your mouth after touching that money!" So very right!

I hate to say it, but money is money. Unless there was less than ten bucks in that wallet, i would have fished that sucker out.

I wonder where he spent the soiled money. It would have to be someplace that I hated dearly.

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Steaming Cable the shit lake was the lake where raw sewage was flushed? I can not understand that?

Yeah, G3: I figured the same thing re: the credit cards/ driver's license. A good wipe-down with bleach would probably leave them good to go. Business cards - trash. Wallet - gone. Cash - I'd have to try to save that by washing (somehow).

Tempora - I am comparing the holding tank below the outhouse to a lake of shit. I thought it was clear (the metaphor, not the contents)....hehe.

My mother once told me that money is covered with germs. Now I know she was right.