Not the exciting kind that gets the FBI involved, but today as I was pulling my laundry from the washer to put it into the dryer, I found a surprise as I found my wallet had been in the last cycle.

Usually, I pull my wallet out of my pocket before I take off my pants. I guess I missed that this time. Also, I missed the presence of the wallet both when I sorted the laundry into like-colored piles, and when I put the pile in the machine.

Fortunately, there were just a few paper bills in there, and just a couple of ATM receipts. Long gone are the days of keeping scraps of paper with useful information on them; I keep that on the phone, or "in the cloud." The rest of the wallet is filled with plastic cards, either credit cards or credit card-like cards. Only a couple of things in there were laminated, and they survived pretty well, with just a little water-marking.

Taking the brunt of the abuse is the wallet itself. It's a nice, tough buffalo skin wallet, so it fared pretty well. It just got soaked enough that the cloth liner and inner parts are quite soggy.

The worst part is, this was the second incident of money laundering in the same set of laundry! Earlier I found a nickel that had been through the wash cycle.

The feds will surely be pounding on my door any day now.