reaching into the toliet where do you draw the line?

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  • jboccio90
    jboccio90 Posts: 644 Member
    Have had my hand in a toilet up to the forearm to look for, ironicaly, the ex's wedding ring...twice. both funking times not actually there...

    Oh and I've climbed through a fly infested dumpster in 40deg C temp for her wallet...which also wasn't there....


    Some serious make up went on....


    But an actual porta potty...nah....but ...yeay probably..

    I think someone just liked seeing you suffer LOL
  • cabaray
    cabaray Posts: 971 Member
    I would most definitely reach in there for an engagement ring. That's three months salary and certainly not cheap! It can be sanitized.

    If it's my cell phone, forget about it. I'm not putting that thing up to my ear ever again. If I have a plastic bag, or a rubber glove, I'll pick it up, check if it turns on, then ebay that thing as "gently used."
    Making a mental note to never buy a phone from ebay!
  • CountryBoy65
    CountryBoy65 Posts: 908 Member
    Its a freakin slow day when this is what we are talking about. WTF?
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    I just went in one of those yesterday. All I can say was just walking into it was a chore. I would not reach in there for anything. There would be nothing I would reach in there for. In fact, there's that movie, where the kid gets in one to hide form the Nazi's. I was discussing this with someone at work, and I said, I would just decide to die instead of jumping in one of those things.
  • MoogledStats
    MoogledStats Posts: 6
    lol i would go elbow deep for a fifty

    You sir are my hero.
    I'd do the same.
  • Francesca3162
    Francesca3162 Posts: 520 Member
    Unless my Grandson fell in and needed rescue, NOTHING, and I MEAN NOTHING, would prompt me to put my hand where someone else's *kitten* was!!!
  • littlepinkhearts
    littlepinkhearts Posts: 1,055 Member
    omG this topic is just WRONG lol on soooooo many levels. Having said that, when my daughter was young, or my ex was in a hurry and forgot to take the things out of his pocket before throning, I remember reaching in far too many times. Cellphones, keys, Tamagotchi's, polly pockets, stuffed animals just to name a few.
  • TheFunBun
    TheFunBun Posts: 793 Member
    Ehhhh, poodoo washes off. Anything that will cost me over 100 dollars to leave in the toilet is getting fished out. If it's my own toilet, I don't care what it is, I'm not ruining my plumbing by flushing it.
  • paulsmisses
    paulsmisses Posts: 178
    If the toilet water was clean, I would more than likely retrieve what fell in, given it was important.

    If it were my own pee, it would become questionable.

    If there was someone elses pee, or ANY poop, I would not reach down for ANYTHING. If it was truly important, I would go find some kitchen knick-knack to try to scoop it out, and than throw whatever device it was away and replace it.

    i have two boisterous boys - have used kitchen gadgets loada of times to fish out things they stick down the loo - with you on that one! then straight in the bin!
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Everyone, except a few, are missing the point. THIS ISN'T YOUR TOILET WERE TALKING ABOUT. WERE TALKING ABOUT A PORTA POTTY. In my mind, that's totally different than your own toilet.

    WOULD YOU JUMP INTO A PORTA POTTY FOR YOUR CELL PHONE, WALLET, ETC.?

    I wouldn't. I'd just say bye bye to my wallet and leave.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    I work at a turd-hurding plant, we get calls all the time from people asking us if we found their dropped item. Diamond rings are a big one, but one time, we had someone call and ask us to keep an eye out for his dentures. Another time we had a doctor call, saying he accidentally dropped a spleen sample down the sink and wanted us to keep an eye out for it. We also recovered some badly faked $20 bills, whoever tried to make them, failed and disposed of the evidence down the toilet.
  • Darlingir
    Darlingir Posts: 437
    lol i would go elbow deep for a fifty

    lol!!
  • jodycoady
    jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
    A long time ago I lost my phone in the toilet at a club. I pretended it wasn't mine. "Look someone lost their cell phone in the toilet!"

    Thank goodness one of my best friends worked for the company so I got a free replacement the next day. If I was home I would have fished it out for sure, lol
  • april_beth
    april_beth Posts: 616 Member
    ive picked up toddler *kitten* from the bathtub with my bare hands...this should tell you that if i saw money, id reach down in a millisecond for that...

    if i dropped my wallet, i probably wouldnt cause it never has cash in it...and id just go cancel my cards...id probably reach into it for my phone even tho it's insured. keys to my car and house?! probably not cause the DH has extra of those.

    so basically hard cold cash id pick up :D
  • AntShanny
    AntShanny Posts: 359 Member
    I don't think a lot of you really read the original post...this is a porta-potty, not your regular toilet! There's no way in hell I'd reach into one of those. Like somebody else mentioned I'd contact the porta-potty peopleif it was something important...money I wouldn't even consider!
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    There is nothing that would make me reach into a porta-pottie.
  • littlepinkhearts
    littlepinkhearts Posts: 1,055 Member
    *kitten* is *kitten*....if it's my daughters toy down there that she carries around everywhere she goes....then i'm goin in. I wouldn't even think twice about it.
  • MariaMariaM
    MariaMariaM Posts: 1,322 Member
    Ok, here it goeS. Even thinking about it grosses me out! :noway: :embarassed:

    A few years ago, I was at a bar with friends. I was a little tipsy and for some reason I washed my hands before I went to the toilet. I guess I still had soap in my hands because my engagement ring slipped off my fingers and landed in the toilet :sad:
    I think I might had screamed because my friend was frantic asking me what happened. Well, After debating for a few minutes about what to do I took the plunge and reached for my ring. I got out and washed my hands and ring for a long time and dumped a good amount of hand sanitizer for good measure. When I told my husband and friends what happened they could not stop laughing.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    I'm a CNA. Waste products don't scare me.
  • Kishsa27
    Kishsa27 Posts: 28 Member
    I would NEVER EVER reach down inside of a porta potty for my personal belongings. No matter what it is. People these days have diseases and I wouldn't risk my own health for something that I paid money for. I would call the company that loans those thing out and ask them to retreive it for me and if they wouldn't then I guess I would be s%$#& out of luck.
    If it was my own toilet then I would reach down and take what ever it was out. My six year old went through a stage when she was two and put EVERYTHING down our toilet to see what would happen so I have had practice. lol
  • redfroggie
    redfroggie Posts: 591 Member
    I would never ever ever reach into a porta potty. I will find a bush or tree to pee behind before I use a porta potty. If there was nothing else available and I had no choice I would hover and I don't care what falls in I don't want it. Nothing, at all, no, nada, nothing. I'm gonna go wash my hands now...
  • JanetLM73
    JanetLM73 Posts: 1,226 Member
    I've had to reach in a toilet full of pee when my daughter dropped a toy in it....but that is where I draw the line.
  • littlemoonsandy
    littlemoonsandy Posts: 1,930
    hmmm that is a good question let me take a *kitten* and ponder on that one for awhile
  • nursedb
    nursedb Posts: 297 Member
    My 70$ sunglasses...in an old ladies toilet that smelled like...well, an old lady! EWWW!!!!
  • theladyy
    theladyy Posts: 176
    I wouldn't reach into a port-a-john for crap.

    Lol...I see what you did there.


    That's hard to answer actually...I'd have to wait and see for this to happen before I know what I'd do.
  • ladyfingers39
    ladyfingers39 Posts: 335
    A public toilet or a porta-johni are two very different things than my own toilet at home. Not sure I could reach in for anything....

    Would have to be some thing extra special that's for sure.
  • guamSUPERgirl90
    guamSUPERgirl90 Posts: 255
    If it's my toilet at home, I'd dive in just so it doesn't get flushed to clog the drains! If it's a public john, I wouldn't do it. I'd call whoever owns it so they can do it. LOL.

    EDIT: I have dropped a couple things in 'em:

    cellphones
    rings
    bracelets
    toothbrush (don't ask/ and YES i did throw it away after)
    a towel
    a wig (halloween prop)
    unused roll of tissue
    etc
  • kymillion
    kymillion Posts: 791 Member
    porta john never .. my toilet I wouldn't mind .. its not a big deal that's what soap and antibacterial shine* is for.. but a porta john..? I can barely pee in one.. UGH.

    put my dainty woman hands in it? hell NO and I would never ask anyone to do something I wouldn't do.. so .. I would just have to call it whatever "it" was a loss.
  • briebear77
    briebear77 Posts: 253 Member
    Hahahaha this whole topic is making my night.
  • pduckworth
    pduckworth Posts: 133
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    You have no idea how hard I laughed over this. My dog came running over to make sure I was okay. In fact, I'm still giggle/snorting over this.

    Anyway. I'd go into my own toilet for anything. I dropped my driver's license in the toilet at a club in Nicaragua. I dove in after that in like 0.1 seconds. Port a potty though? I don't know. Maybe if something was worth a few thousand dollars. Luckily for me though, I don't carry my car into the bathroom, so I shouldn't have to worry about that.
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