"wanlace" cleared for lift-off

[William Quale]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> (And I really doubt you've ever put change in that pocket -- if you did,
> it's probably still wedged in there.)

When traveling in Europe in summer '97, I used that pocket to carry one
tightly-folded bank-note in the largest common denomination for each
country as I visited it (so in case I was pickpocketed, I still had plenty
of emergency cash).

Two years later, spring '99, I happened to stick my finger in that pocket
in a pair of jeans I was wearing, and I felt something unexpected.
Indeed, it was a 200-franc note and a 100-mark note, which had survived
dozens of launderings completely intact, undisturbed, and forgotten!

--Will

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