When I read Willa’s request for a list of the stuff we carry with us, I thought, "What can I contribute?" Being a male of the species, I don’t carry a purse, and I have an aversion to carrying anything in my pant pockets; I don’t even carry a wallet. Instead I leave it in the glove compartment of the car; (not a good idea, I know!) My car keys…? I usually carry them in my hand jingling them back and forth between my index finger and palm; it drives my wife crazy. Anyway, it took a minute for it to sink in that I carry a packsack to work each and every day. Here’s the stuff I keep in it, besides my lunch, that is: PackSack Stuff: Swiss Army Knife: I use this for peeling apples, oranges, stirring tea, surgery, etcetera.) My Work Keys hanging on a big Diaper Pin Key Holder… I made the key holder out of a stainless steel welding rod. I have 5 kids so I know the design well! Pencil Sony Walkman with Ear Phones Three Tapes Spare Batteries Change Purse with $5.45 in Change Four Sticks of Big Red Chewing Gum Two Tube Braces (I have an arthritic knee that acts up once in a while.) One Band-Aid Blue Address Book Pill Bottle with Tylenol 35mm Film Container filled with Antacid Tablets Non-Permanent Items… Well, some of these things have been in my pack for a long time! A Newsletter from the Community Arts Council Some "Buy & Sell" Photo Equipment Ads One 4x5 Inch Negative and One 6x7cm Negative. Eight Jig Saw Blades (I’ve been making things for my photo enlarger at home.) My Grandmother’s Phone Number on a Piece of Scrap Paper. (I still haven’t phoned her!) One Christian Tract Written by, Newman Hall, in the 1800’s (No, Not the Original.) I don’t carry my pack except to work and so on the weekends and after work I don’t really carry anything at all. I already said, I hate stuff in my pockets. There is one thing, though, I’ve always desired to carry a pocket knife with me but I would always lose them because I hated stuff in my pockets. I was forever taking the wretched things out and leaving them here or there because they were always uncomfortable in my pocket. I finally found the perfect knife: a Gerber with a 3 ½" 450 SS E-Z-Out blade, grunt, grunt, snort snort. And, best of all, I sweet-talked my wife into buying it for me. It has a clip, not unlike a pen, which enables me to hang the knife inside my pocket by the lip… (is that what it’s called, a lip?) Anyway, because the knife doesn’t reach to the bottom of my pocket, I don’t feel it and so it always goes back in. I’ve worn it for about a two years now and really would feel naked without it. Back Home | Index | Notification | Webcam | Dreams | Mood Swings | Tea Leaves Books | Music | Reflections | Guestbook | Postcards | Web Design Copyright © 1998 Willa G. Cline