On the way home from vacation, I was using the ladies' room in the Phoenix Airport. As is customary for me, I was examining the appearance of the commode before getting too close to it. You know, just a visual inspection. I was standing there and I went to take my arm out of the strap of my bag and my gold bracelet fell right into the toilet.
The clasp had broken.

I just stared down at it...

5 seconds
10 seconds

I'm just looking at this shiny thing sitting there in toilet water, not knowing what to do. I called out to my daughters..."Girls...look at this. What do you think I should do?" My younger one promptly offered to reach in and grab it.
I told her there was no way I was letting her do that. So now all 3 of us are just staring down into the toilet, waiting for divine intervention I guess.

I weighed the issue in my mind. The bracelet has no sentimental value, really. It was given to me by a neighbor who bought it at a swap meet. It's probably only worth $200 or so....I didn't pay a dime for it. And yet it's just laying there, glistening like a shiny snake. I sware, the thing never looked prettier to me than when it was sitting on the bottom of that white basin.

I should tell you that it was 8:15 am in Phoenix and the restrooms looked pretty clean. It was a very quiet time as airport standards go. But it was, afterall, still a public toilet.....

So...I did what I felt was the right thing.





I snatched it up.


What would you have done?
What could you have walked away from, and what would you have doven in for yourself?

Couldn't you just have fished it up with some kind of stick (or rolled up paper or whatever)? Or you could have gone to fetch the cleaning lady while your daughters guarded the toilet.

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retina said:

Where the hell were you when I needed you?

Cloudbuster said:

Well not all of us are poo fetishists.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

Probably fishing in some other toilet somewhere.

retina said:

You should be.

The frog.

retina said:

Just claim for it on your insurance..

Haha! Remind me to never shake your nasty ass hand, toilet-fisher!

Nero said:

Kiss the ring, Bitch!

Fleshofmyflesh said:

HA! Not a chance... Not now that you're all nasty.

Imagine the hundreds, no, thousands of people who've pissed and pooed in that very toilet.

What?

Don't be a big pussy...reach in there and get it.

You do know what soap is, right?

What's the big deal?

gemini13 said:

Sure, I think we're all acquainted with soap. But just cos you've got soap on your side, do you suppose it means that you'd dig your fingers in a piece of poo if it looked like fun?

Nero said:

Is there gold in the poo?

Nero said:

Was there poop in the toilet yet?

gemini13 said:

Reaching down your own toilet is one thing, reaching down a public one is something completely different.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

For the sake of argument, yes, let's say you accidently swallowed a gold ring.

Would you fish into the toilet, and dig out that glimmering piece of material from your own shit?

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Who are you kidding?
You'd go diggin in there if you dropped a dollar in.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

Think about all the nasty shit that's living in the tiny cracks of your bracelet now. If you get eczema you know what it's from.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

No, you're talking about your ass now.

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Hell, her hand will probably rot right off her wrist.

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Huh?
You're saying you'd go dive in if my ass was in there?

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Fleshofmyflesh said:

No, I'm saying I'd dive in your ass, tongue first, if I dropped a dollar in it.

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Lick my fingers, Joey. NOW!

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Cool.
Cause I can't make change.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

I'm sorry, I really have to go now.