TO: Dr. Helen
RE: How I Do It
Keys go in pockets. A couple of Hall’s cough drops. Loose change, which isn’t very much, go there to. Along with billfold and checkbook.
[Note: Checkbooks are superior to credit/debit cards. Especially in light of the Tom Clancy approaches identity-thieves are using to infiltrate grocery store computers. See The Bear and the Dragon for an example.]
Pockets, dear Doctor. Pockets. I generally don’t wear a business suit. I wear civilianized battle dress trousers and vests with lots of pockets. Indeed, if I looked any gruffer, I could be mistaken for a Protector.
But I recall my two suits have five pockets in the coats and two in the vests.
[1] Stamps? Who needs stamps? I pay my bills from my house.
[2] Make-up? I don’t use it.
[3] Food? Don’t we have eateries or vending machines just about everywhere? Certainly within walking distance. Then there’s always the glove compartment or between seats console of the car. If I’m going very far away from any of those, I pack a ruck-sack….and web-gear and some forms of long and hand-guns.
Speaking of guns, a purse is a great place to carry such, provided you have a CCW permit to go along with it.
Bottom line here is I don’t care what people think of what I wear. As long as I’m not messy nor obscene. And therein lies the proverbial difference betwixt men and women and utility.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Fashions are induced epidemics. -- George Bernard Shaw]
