2700 revolutions oughta spit those bills out

You're washing some clothes and forgot some hard earned cash in your pants pockets.  Sometimes, this hard earned cash gets tossed out of those pockets in the washer machine, and you have some clean but wet hard earned cash.  Some unintentional money laundering just went on.

But sometimes, those hard earned bills like hanging out in the pants pockets you stuffed them in and continue their journey on to the dryer.  Now what makes them fall out of the pockets in the dryer?  Does the pair of pants have to fall just right, with the pocket opening facing downward while getting bumped with another pair of jeans, right at the pocket opening- impact causing the hard earned cash to jiggle loose?  This has to be it.  Today, as I watched the jeans through the glass dryer door and noticed a bill floating around, I wondered how many times the dryer drum has to spin around for this to happen.  Just a guess, but I figured that the drum was spinning at a rate of 3/4 revolution per second.  Some simple math told me that in one minute, the drum would spin around 45 times.  Multiply 45 revolutions per minute by the 60 minutes that your jeans will spend in the dryer, and you get 2700 revolutions.  Surely this is enough to nudge the hard earned bills out of the pants pockets.

I'm sure that sometimes, the money just happens to stay put in the pockets you put them in.  This probably doesn't happen as much as the falling out does.  Anyway, check your pockets before tossing your pants in the washer machine.