Conversations with the Oglet
“daddy, why don’t they make pretty purses for men?”
“Men don’t carry purses, honey”
“you carry a purse”
“What? No, that’s a computer bag.”
“you carry your stuff in it, right?”
“right. I carry my computer back and forth to work”
“And you have your keys, wallet, other stuff there”
“yep.”
“Purse”
“….”
“So why don’t they make pretty purses for men?”
“…..”
I get the same thing from the wife about my map bag. I bought bought a 5.11 vest and she calls that my ‘man-purse-coat’.
I just can’t win.
The actual name, in fashion-speak, is “man bag.”
I kid you not.
It’s more of a deal there because true fashionistas put nothing in their pockets, it spoils the look.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
I prefer to carry my computer in a nice, manly backpack! And it just happens to have room for a small town inside.
But now for my Tablet PC, I’m using a portfolio that might be vaguely purse-like, but practical: I can carry the machine in Tablet mode and write on it while I walk.
Men always get stuck with the dull dingy computer bag!
Metrosexuals get the pretty man purse. Now go cry and ask for your runaway bride back!
Heh. The Oglet. I could TOTALLY see her doing that, too. She rocks.
Cause men aren’t comfortable enough in their sexuality to be seen wearing a frilly pink purse. :)