Much like Smeghead everything in my pockets must be in thier proper places or I don’t feel right.
Front right pocket: Keys, coins, bills, lighter.
Front left pocket: Hanky to wipe glasses, chapstick, nail clippers, smokes.
Back Right: Wallet
Back Left: Gum, if I have any.
If I have any other pockets I’ll try to put my smokes and lighter there as they’re too bulky and get crushed in my pants pockets.
A couple of scrap pieces of paper (email addresses, phone numbers, directions), two ratty old transfers for the TTC buses, my wallet, and some spare change. I’m boring.
Usually I carry my purse which has my wallet, keys, 4 pens, Sudoku book, ZenTouch, novel, phone, lighter and hand lotion as winter is coming.
Don’t know why I still carry the lighter, I quit smoking a couple weeks ago.
Oh, and I usually have the latest copy of Dose or The Weal in my bag too (free papers that I read, one is on nearly every corner the other is the college paper).
Chain wallet in my back right pocket, keys in my front left. Gum and lighter in my front right, random papers, a knife and other crap in the cargo pockets. Program schedule in my left sweatshirt pocket, CD player in my right. Basically, everything I tend to take out often is on my right, and everything I take out less than twice is on the left. I didn’t choose this orientation. My handedness did.
Everything has its place, but there are several configurations.
Regular deployment: Service Dress, Formal Dress
Pants, front left:
“Limited Wallet” (small leather envelope, basically) including:[ul][li]Provincial driver’s licence,[]Provincial health card,[]Credit card,[]Bus tickets enough for two trips on each municipal transit system appropriate to the deployment (unless a buss pass is owned),[]Paper money as appropriate, andOther cards as necessary to the deployment, often including: Student card, Military ID card, Fuel discount card[/ul][/li]- Bus pass, if one owned.
Bank card in case, if necessary to the deployment.
Pants, front right
Black-ink pen with retractable ball or with cap, and with clip.
Facial tissue, if required.
Additional deployment-specific items, if required.
Pants, rear right and left none
Pants, cargo right and left none Overseas or Special Deployments
As above, but “Limited Wallet” is replaced by full wallet with most cards and additional material. Winter Dress
As above, but with the following additions:
Jacket, left
Gloves, when not worn
Sunglasses
Jacket, right
Toque (if required)
Scarf, when not worn
Jacket, internal
Keys
Sensitive items, as designated
Change canister Spring/Fall Jacket
As for the winter jacket, with the keys moved to the right jacket pocket, and with the scarf removed from pocket storage. The change canister may be remove dform pocket sotrage or place in a jacket pocket so as to balance the weight across the jacket. Flying Suit
Left arm
Pilot’s licences, medical certificate, radiotelephone operator’s certificate, all defended by plastic bag.
Military driver’s licence
Left breast
Chap stick
Deployment logbook
Paper
Keys, if no jacket worn
Right breast
As for ‘Pants, left’ in Service Dress
Sensitive documents, including logbook and logbook pen if required
Map clips
Map (only in cockpit)
Route documentation (only in cockpit)
Hip, left none
Hip, right
Facial tissue, if required
Leg none
Knife
Knife or multitool, if required.
Bus tickets for the next trip, if required.
Pen holder, left
Red pen with retractable ball or with cap, and with clip
Blue pen with retractable ball or with cap, and with clip
Pen holder, right
Black pen, gift from a student.
Pencil, sharpened and of sufficient length to not get lost in pen-holder, OR Pencil, mechanical with lead.
Great link - thanks. I wonder if the funeral he was going to was JFK’s?
All I have in my pockets is my wallet. I don’t feel comfortable having my pockets weighed down with lots of stuff. Sometimes I wish I were a woman so I could carry a handbag (US purse) to keep my stuff in.
I usually buy the stuff that in a bubble pack covered with foil so it doesn’t get warm and squishy. But if I don’t consume it quickly then the individual peices will get all cracked up and start to crumble.
I asked about men’s handbags in this thread. I actually went through with it and purchased one of these - the “Europa Field Bag”, to be specific. I love it. I have absolutely nothing in my pockets right now.
Boy, some of you guys carry tons of crap around. I have my wallet (with money, ID, and credit cards), 30 cents in change, my keys, a small pocket knife (on the keychain), and my cellphone (clipped onto my belt).
A little wallet thingie with a keyring attached. That’s it. I’m a girl but purses I can do without (and makeup too, so that negates a lot of the need for a purse).
I remember Reagan going to a McDonald’s during the '84 campaign, ordering and getting his food, and walking away with the tray. The press corps shouted at him that he had to pay for his food. An obliging White House handler did it for him.
Oh, in my pockets?
At home or on my own time
Left front: keys
Right front: to-do list; penknife
Left rear: 3 or 4 Kleenex
At work (suit and tie)
As above, and also…
Inside left pocket of suit: Calendar and pen
Inside right pocket of suit: Wallet
And FWIW, payphones around here take 50 cents now, even for a local call.