$$$ on a public bathroom floor

[MOE SYZLAK]

Was having this conversation with a couple coworkers a while back, figured I’d bring it here and see what the pals have to say.

What is the least amount of money you’d pick up if you found it on the floor of a public restroom?

*just to clarify, we’re talking just an average public restroom cleanliness level. Like there’s not shit smeared everywhere or anything, but it’s still kinda gross…

[Newphone]

Normal cleanliness? I gotta say any paper US bill.

[Mean salto]

Maybe $5 if in note form. Provided I can see it's ok to touch, I could just wash it in the sink right away (money is waterproof here) and just spend it right away.

How much in coins is where it gets tricky, it could be $20 worth of $2 coins and I prob still wouldn't really want to try pick them up

[L33Tg33k]

Any bill I find on any floor I will be taking. There’s microscopic amounts of fecal matter on all US money anyway…Also cocaine.

[bob george]

yeah i'd probably start at 20 cents. the world is disgusting, everything you touch is filthy. if the money got dropped in the bathroom it's not like they shat it out or shit/pissed all over their hands and then took some money out of their pocket and placed it on the floor is it?

[Paco Supreme]

Folding money, no matter how small. Shit over here is plastic so it’s all good.

[Prostate Exam]

In our currency here the everything below 10 bucks is in coin-form and I am not going to pick up any coins from a filthy bathroom floor. I am a huge germophobe in general and would only pick up a bill from the floor. I would spend it right away and not put it in my wallet or anything.
Probably buy some hand sanitizer with it

[Coastal Fever]

I’d pick up a loonie but not a quarter.  Wash it, and my hands, in the sink that’s right there.  Our 5’s and up are plastic bills too, so same thing.  But I’m also gross and a non-germaphobe to a fault, so I’d probably just pocket it without washing anything tbh.

[Síota]

Gonna wash my hands and the coins so €0.50

[sometimeperhaps]

I’d pick up a loonie but not a quarter.  Wash it, and my hands, in the sink that’s right there.  Our 5’s and up are plastic bills too, so same thing.  But I’m also gross and a non-germaphobe to a fault, so I’d probably just pocket it without washing anything tbh.

Something along these lines. I can wash the money off in the sink if needed. Closer to the door the less likely I am to care about dirtiness level

[Pasta Monster]

$5 if it’s not soaked in piss

[ToySanta]

I’d pick up a penny.

Finding money on the ground is a hobby of mine.

[apport]

any amount of currency over 1 cent

[Madam, I'm Adam]

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I’d pick up a loonie but not a quarter.  Wash it, and my hands, in the sink that’s right there.  Our 5’s and up are plastic bills too, so same thing.  But I’m also gross and a non-germaphobe to a fault, so I’d probably just pocket it without washing anything tbh.

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Something along these lines. I can wash the money off in the sink if needed. Closer to the door the less likely I am to care about dirtiness level

Yeah, a dollar would be the least.

Then go to the casino, get a chip, put it on black, one turns to ten, ten turns to eighty, and then I'm buying Dragons whoadie 

[Gary Bucket]

Public bathroom, $1. Jobsite porta potty, aint happening

[disclosed]

50 cents aslong as it doesn't look pissed on.
i wouln't bother picking up anything lower than 50 cent anywhere.

[Noble Experiment]

I’m gonna pick it up using tongs and rubber gloves and then place it on the floor outside and then watch someone else pick it up not knowing it was just on a bathroom floor, then I’ll run up to them and tell them “yo that was actually just on a bathroom floor” and then watch their heart sink.

[TheLurper]

Maybe $5 if in note form. Provided I can see it's ok to touch, I could just wash it in the sink right away (money is waterproof here) and just spend it right away.

How much in coins is where it gets tricky, it could be $20 worth of $2 coins and I prob still wouldn't really want to try pick them up

Smart. I didn't think of being able to just wash it in the sink, especially if it is Canada and where we have our plastic money.

Also, I think there is the question in what range of value would you try to find the owner? I feel, in general, losing coins is just normal day to day life and there is zero moral obligation to find the owner, but once we get to 10 dollars then this is outside the norm and may affect the owner.  But, finding a 100 on the ground might be enough reward to completely ignore the plight of the original owner.

P.S. I remember I had to buy my first powerful computer with cash, because my credit card limit didn't go high enough to buy it w/my card. It was more money than I had ever seen in one place before ($2,700). I walked with my hand on my money from the bank to the Apple store since I was so paranoid that it might fall out of my pocket.

[easymoneysniper]

$5 if it’s not soaked in piss

[Kook Me Amadeus]

5 USD for sure

[Coastal Fever]

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$5 if it’s not soaked in piss

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And if it is?

[RoaryMcTwang]

We don’t use cash anymore.

[Steely Daniel]

Loonie or a toonie so I could get some of that shit encrusted in my fingernails when I pick it up

[Maccat]

Pass on a buck, but five bucks is five bucks. You can do something with that.

And you’re in the John. Wash your hands with the buck and hit it with the air dryer.

My dad found a 50 the was balled up on the side of a toilet at some club. He didn’t know what he was getting and I thought it was fucked until he gave me 50 bucks straight up. Bought a board the next day.

[j....soy.....]

All right…..I’ll up the ante….your favourite chocolate bar wrapped? 

[behavioralguide]

Public bathroom, $1. Jobsite porta potty, aint happening

How much would you fish out of a jobsite porta potty?

[Gary Bucket]

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Public bathroom, $1. Jobsite porta potty, aint happening

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How much would you fish out of a jobsite porta potty?

I’ve seen too much carnage in those things to even think twice about $100. No way. Id rather pick up some OT and not have hepatitis

[FandomCereal]

Was having this conversation with a couple coworkers a while back, figured I’d bring it here and see what the pals have to say.

What is the least amount of money you’d pick up if you found it on the floor of a public restroom?

*just to clarify, we’re talking just an average public restroom cleanliness level. Like there’s not shit smeared everywhere or anything, but it’s still kinda gross…

absolute very least would probably have to be a quarter

[layzieyez]

I’ll pick up a Benjamin sprayed with diarrhea and piss.

[whale]

Any folding money is where my stance on picking up money comes unfold.

I don’t really pick up coins from the ground, not because I think it’s nasty but like a 2e coin doesn’t affect me in any way plus I don’t use cash. Rather leave it to somebody who would get stoked on finding it.