# what's in your pockets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283 "2000-03-02T00:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/1 "2000-03-02T00:21:00Z")
Sorry, that’s the first survey I could think of. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/2 "2000-03-02T00:33:00Z")
Oh, what you’d expect to find in pockets. Lessee… change, keys, some lint, and… what’s this? OHMYGODNOAIEEEEEEE \ * * * Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. ---
**Author:** ![rebel\_fighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rebel\_fighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rebel_fighter)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/3 "2000-03-02T00:38:00Z")
my pockets have thrown out some money, candy bar wrappers, and endless amounts of lint ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/4 "2000-03-02T00:41:00Z")
Left front pants: Comb, pen, gum, blistex ``` Center pants: Uhh....mmm..heh heh ``` Right front pants: car keys, pocket knife, loose change Left rear pants: Wallet * * * VB “Rudyard Kipling?” “Don’t know; I’ve never Kippled!” ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/5 "2000-03-02T00:50:00Z")
My hands. Now, what’s in my hands? Ummm, maybe we better just skip that part. [[[DD goes off to have another rousing game of pocket pool]]] ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/6 "2000-03-02T00:52:00Z")
What’ss it got in itss nassssty pocketsesss. Me? Nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/7 "2000-03-02T01:02:00Z")
Lemmee see: ## .32 caliber Berretta, nickel plated. 2 rocks of crack. Straight razor. Pager. Set of knuckle dusters. .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Police Special. NYPD Detective Badge. Archie comic book. Voted as the poster you’d most like to meet. Please don’t tell me why. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/8 "2000-03-02T01:07:00Z")
No pockets. I’m sitting here, posting, in my “tighty-whiteys”. **OH GHOD!!! I’M MOT POSTING FROM HOME!!! I FORGOT!!! SHOOT ME NOW!!!** 😃😛🆒 * * * It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/9 "2000-03-02T01:11:00Z")
Well let’s see… Small pillbox with aspirin. Keys $1.22 in change Wallet Swiss Army knife Gee, even my pants are dull. * * * _When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown. But it takes only 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head._ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/10 "2000-03-02T01:15:00Z")
Pockets? What are those? (98% dresses here) * * * – “it’s all real” “I KNEW IT!!!” O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/11 "2000-03-02T01:34:00Z")
Hmmm, lessee, I got a stick of chapstick, a Spyderco Endura, a cell phone, a wallet, a couple of receipts, some allergy pills, some ephedrine, some alleve, some sunglasses, a floppy disk, some keys, a security card to let me open doors at work, a badge to wear at said work to identify me so I don’t have the hounds released on me, a discman w/ headphones, a few CD’s in sleeves, a couple of bills of various denominations and some change totalling $32.57, some mints, some gum, a nail clipper, and a miniature magic 8-ball. Wow, that’s a lot of stuff. I think I should lose some of this shit. * * * how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking… VvvV “Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.” ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/12 "2000-03-02T01:46:00Z")
My God, Lex. Do you do anything else as a Harpo Marx impersonator? ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/13 "2000-03-02T01:54:00Z")
MrKnowItAll, sounds like Lexicon is wearing cargo pants and a photographer’s vest. A miniature magic-8 ball? Is it one of those ones attached to a keychain? Lessee, _my_ pockets… house keys, car keys, office keys, old grocery list & recent gas receipt, a quarter & a nickel. ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/14 "2000-03-02T01:58:00Z")
## Each time I put on a fresh pair of jeans, I find some money in the pockets. My SO thinks I’m moonlighting as a stripper. I’m not a fallen angel, I’m a risen demon. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/15 "2000-03-02T02:40:00Z")
Left: car keys and utility knife card as keychain, pen. Right: comb back: wallet (full of money, business cards, fortunes from fortune cookies, various forms of i.d., etc.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/16 "2000-03-02T02:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Lemmee see: > .32 caliber Berretta, nickel plated. > 2 rocks of crack. > Straight razor. > Pager. > Set of knuckle dusters. > .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Police Special. > NYPD Detective Badge. > Archie comic book. (sigh) Gotta _love_ that man! * * * [**StoryTyler**](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/17 "2000-03-02T04:04:00Z")
The usual: RF: keys (16), rubber coin purse, Victorinox Standard pocket knife LF: Wallet (w/license, birth cert. card, credit cards, insurance and Rx ID, family snapshots, fresnel magnifying glass, _very little_ cash), comb, MiniMag light RR: 10’ tape measure, tissue LR: spare car key Shirt: pen, pencil, highlighter, glasses case, address book, calculator, office key card (pager and SOG utility tool on my belt) (OK, so I took my Boy Scout motto too seriously.) * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![GrammarNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@GrammarNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrammarNinja)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/18 "2000-03-02T04:09:00Z")
Cher, I’d have guessed string – or nothing! But that wouldn’t have counted, I suppose, my sneaking in 2 guesses in one … Seen any news about the LOTR films being shot in New Zealand? ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/19 "2000-03-02T04:23:00Z")
I’ve gotten to having nothing in the backpockets. I had a key case in the backpockets and I kept bending these long car keys, by sitting on the keycase.the bent key to get into the car.I also need a shirt with a pocket where I keep the cards and junk. I actually hate change in pockets, so I try various solutions. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283/20 "2000-03-02T04:25:00Z")
had to stomp on the bent key to starighten it to get into the car… overwrite problem [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-pockets/14283.md?page=2)