The price is right.

[davywavy]

What with economic slowdowns, credit crunches and negative equity, a lot of people are suddently feeling poorer. Several of my friends have taken second jobs like bar work to make ends meet and people seem to be going out less. The question is, just how short of cash are people feeling?
This question was brought home to me a while ago when I had an interesting experience in a public lavatory*.
No, not that. YOu have a filthy mind.

You see, there I was, minding my own business (as it were) when I noticed there was a coin in the bottom of the lavatory bowl and that got me thinking. Assuming that the water in the bowl was clean, how much would the coin have to be worth to put my hand in and retrieve it?

And I'll ask the same question of you, dear reader. How low would you go?

[Poll #1220841]

^{*I bet you never expected to hear me say that**
**Except regarding the incident of the 'rubber-clad fairy', with me, ukmonty and colonel_maxim in a public toilet, but that's a story for another day.}

Comments

Oh do tell.

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds simply fascinating.

Re: Oh do tell.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It was a long time ago, I was young, and I needed the money.

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Er... I'm not sure that I'd make a statement to this effect given that my attitude would vary greatly based on factors other than the cleanliness of the water.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty certain that would be the first thing anyone would consider though.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I am assuming. a) The water is clean and b) There is sufficient cleaning facilities nearby

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That's kinduv a given.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Then my loo diving answer stands.

[elbly.livejournal.com]

You're telling me you don't carry rubber gloves with you at all times for such a situation? You really weren't in the boy scouts were you!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I got thrown out of the Boy Scouts!
Admittedly, this was last week and I was hiding a cupboard with a camera, but that's neither here nor there.

[elbly.livejournal.com]

I'm having quite interesting images of someone trying to hide a cupboard with a camera... Is that where you stand in front of the cupboard with a super big camera, flashing everyone so that they are taken by surprise and so completely miss the cupboard?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Oh, you and your gramatical pedantry japes!

[elbly.livejournal.com]

No no no - really... at first I had a very brief moment of "that's what he actually meant" hence the odd image... then yes, pedantry set in, but at first was utterly innocent.

Unlike you and your flashing.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

One of these days I'll read what I've typed before pressing send.

[commlal.livejournal.com]

I have dropped something down the loo before. I can't remember what, something I could and had to get back. But it was in the house, so therefore my loo and very clean.

[fonnparr.livejournal.com]

Interesting that the £2 coin is missing as it is probably just beneath the amount of money I'd be willing to retrieve

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I forgot about the £2, but it is a bit of a middling amount.
What I find most interesting about his is that I could get a whole gang of my chums to rummage around in lavatories for less than a tenner. I can't see how rich people ever get bored.

[(Anonymous)]

You could do it as a reality TV game, like "Deal or No Deal" with a row of public lavatories. I think it would work. Members of the public would queue up to go, as it were

Actually it's only a matter of time, isn't it?

H

I can see it now...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

"One of these unflushed lavatories contains a quarter of a million pounds! The only question is...Cash or Splash?!"

Re: I can see it now...

[(Anonymous)]

Does that turd contain fifty grand, or a rusty razor blade?

Re: I can see it now...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

A question I often find myself asking.

Problematic psychological effect

[applez.livejournal.com]

Placed side by side, it's awfully hard for even this softened-currency American to choose 5 hard pounds sterling (no, you stop you filth-mongers) when a gold sovereign is the next on the list of potential loo-finds.

Other valuables?

[applez.livejournal.com]

I mean, you've expanded beyond the representative value currencies to include gold and diamonds, what about say, a dimebag of nefariously fun substance?

[no, I don't think I'd pull out a barrel of oil or bushel of grain from a loo, no matter how valuable on the commodity market these days]

Re: Other valuables?

[(Anonymous)]

Not even a side or bacon? You decadent Yankee imperialist!

Re: Other valuables?

[applez.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think I could pawn off that brown as "special sauce."

[ddraiggwyrdd.livejournal.com]

By including the non currency items you allow us to put in the excuses.
wouldn't normally but
......I thought it might be someones engagement ring and they would be looking for it....
........I thought it might be a clue to a cunning robbery that would leed to bigger rewards.....
.....It could be a magic wishing ring...