For sure that’d be a total mis-feature on wallets intended for pockets. Which is the typical use case for men.
Many womens’ style pocket books have a wrist strap. Which typically has a ring or loop that’s sewn to the wallet somehow, then the strap has a second rig or loop that engages the first. It’d be easy to customize that to remove the strap and leave the ring that’s firmly attached to the wallet.
True, though a grommet wouldn’t impede - if you don’t need that, just don’t attach anything to it.
Wristlets (seems to be the going term) for women tend to be a fair bit larger than a regular wallet. The idea being, you run out and just have that, not a full purse. I actually own one, but it’s way too big to put in a pocket.
It’s just my own little peculiarity, I admit.
Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I think you have a darn good idea.
Purses are a mixed bag (heh) where the important & urgent shit tends to migrate to the bottom. Keys, phone, & wallet are all dense. Tissues, random bits of paper & beauty / grooming products are light & float to the top. Not good. A solution that really worked would be welcome. And you’d be rich. Win-win.
Just need to get it implemented
Two main pouches, one for important but dense things and one less important for lighter things? Oh, wait, those already exist.
IIRC, during the swing revival fad of the late 1990s - early 2000s, the wallet chain was a not uncommon fashion accessory. Like you’d have your wallet in the pocket of your zoot suit attached to a chain with the other end attached to your belt buckle. And Googling just now apparently wallet chains are also a thing among bikers, and maybe also punks (but shorter chains than the ones worn with a zoot suit). But anyway, wallets meant to be used with such a chain do have a keyring style attachment just like what @Mama_Zappa wants.
They do. They are also far larger than a typical male clothing back pocket.
So there’s sort of a chicken & egg thing going on. The wallet is so huge it doesn’t fit in a pocket without 30% hanging out. So it needs to be secured against falling out & being lost. Fortunately it’s so huge there’s room to install an attachment fitting and still have room for cards & cash
The original practical motivation for “trucker’s wallets” was they contained huge amounts of cash and paperwork as the driver made his daily rounds delivering goods COD and gathering signatureson the delivery paperwork. Nowadays they’re a fashion statement, a surrogate penis of great size bursting out of your pants.
Most current men’s wallets go the other way: smaller is better. My own has a scarcely larger footprint than a credit card and when empty is only as thick as 3 cards. No room for a grommet or loop without growing the whole thing.
Sadly, it is incredibly difficult to find a purse with two main, zipping pockets (I don’t want anything to fall out if it tips over in the car) that is not huge. I’ve been looking, because that’s the kind I like, and there literally was not a single one of them at the last two places I checked.
I love the fact that Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo sent Lazlo his picture unsolicited, after which he started asking some people (mostly politicians?) to send a picture. IIRC the only one who responded but declined to send a picture was Queen Elizabeth.
“You send out letters, you get back letters, that’s for sure!”
I was a bit surprised that they named the lead character in The Brutalist Laszlo Toth, since Novello’s oddball was the only other person I knew about with that name.
Turns out, Novello took the name from the guy who vandalized Michelangelo’s Pietà in 1972.
Did the filmmakers know this and intentionally evoke that connection, or was it a coincidence? Beats me. But I would imagine that in the process of making a major motion some production assistant must have the job of looking up every character name to ensure that a fictional axe murderer is not given the name of someone who might sue.
There are several people listed in Wikipedia with that name.
“Laszlo Toth” (or “László Tóth”) is a fairly common first name-last name combo among Hungarian men - not quite the equivalent of “John Smith,” but close. Note also that Novello’s pen name was “Lazlo Toth,” with no S.
(Glad the letters are such a hit, BTW! I still have to check out Vols. 2 & 3.)
Automotive gripe here. I remember giant transmission humps in all the cars back in the day, save for Toronados, Corvairs, and VWs. These three models had flat interior floors (or nearly so, in the VW) due to FWD (Toronado) or rear engines. The manufacturers used the lack of trans humps in these cars as a selling point, emphasizing the extra foot and leg room afforded by the flat floors.
Now most cars made have FWD. What of the nice flat front floor? The transmission hump has been replaced with a huge center console that, in my humble opinion, is as bad as the hump that used to be there. There isn’t anything in the console that couldn’t be contained elsewhere such as on the dash or steering column. I was in a dealership a couple days ago ad while waiting for my oil change, I noticed something. Some of the SUVS in the showroom had huge cubbies in the center console right where the hump would have been in an old RWD vehicle. The cubby was a pass-through design showing that there was nothing necessary in that space and the console didn’t house any mechanical or electrical parts.
Center consoles are by and large a waste of space.
I wonder how much of that is people’s preference for not having a front bench seat and/or not planning to drive with three people in the front.
Regarding the huge cubbies with the passthrough…are they open all the way to the floor? It may well be that there’s a hump down there, not as big as they used to be, but big enough to prevent a middle seat.
That’s not a universal opinion - if it was, there wouldn’t be so many floor and bench seat consoles for sale. And none of the things I’ve kept in consoles could have been on the dash or the steering columns - phone chargers , EZ Pass , parking meter change , insurance card. Can’t reach the glove compartment from the driver sseat
I spent a lot of time as a kid in the backseat of multiple Beetles and a Squareback and I remember a tall hump in them. Although in retrospect, I don’t know why; weren’t they rear-wheel drive vehicles with a rear engine?
Is it where the linkage from the gear shifter to the transmission lives?
Having never been in one, I’m just basing that on pictures like this:
Yes, there’s a tunnel there, but nowhere near as big as the ones found in RWD cars of the same vintage.
It seemed enormous to me, although I was pretty small at the time, so my perspective may be off. And thanks for the explanation of why it’s there.
I went to a Kia dealership to test drive a car a couple of years ago, and out of curiosity had a look at the EV6 which had just come out. I sat in the driver’s seat, and promptly put my purse in that pass through cubby, it fit perfectly. I did it kind of automatically and was really pleased about it. To me, that’s a selling point!
That car wasn’t one that suited our needs at the time but damn is it nice. And I lament the lack of such a space in other cars. I put my purse on the passenger seat when I’m alone, but I hate tossing it into the back seat when someone is with me.
I can’t tell if this is product design or software design.
But Amazon Prime has different movie “channels” you can subscribe to that allows you a new selection of different movies to stream. I think I got either Encore or Showtime (it was named after a cable channel) for about $4 a month which I’m fine with for a bunch of free movies.
The problem that I only realized halfway through watching my first movie, these were literally the cable channels versions, which meant they were literally censored for violence, nudity, and language.
WHY would ANYONE want the censored version of movies?! It wasn’t even advertised as such, so it’s not like this was the “Family Friendly” channel I chose.