Wetlook World Forum

Yes, I used to do that all the time.    I used regularly to be seen standing outside a shop, pub or railway station near the beach, frantically waving banknotes in the air to dry them off enough to buy my ice cream, ticket or whatever.    Or with banknotes laid out side-by-side on the table in a restaurant to try to dry them off before the bill came (or even more often laid out on the table in the train going home, so that I could buy something from the buffet car or trolley).    

I tried to avoid the problem by putting my valuables in a waterproof pouch; but any pouch which is small enough to fit in a pocket is also very difficult to get things in and out of, and its just about impossible to get just one note out - if one comes out all the others come with it.    So I would take them all out to buy something (or they would come out with my phone if I needed to use that), then I couldn't immediately spare the time and effort to coax the remaining ones back into the pouch (especially if I'd just seen some wetlook happening in the distance!) so would just stuff them in an ordinary pocket "temporarily".    Then off course I would forget about them and go back into the water....

That problem is now largely solved by contactless credit and debit cards, which are unaffected by water and wipe dry very quickly, and of course are accepted almost everywhere nowadays.