For quite some time, my pocket schema has consisted of keys, cell phone and pen in my front left pocket, and wallet in my front right pocket. This arrangement has worked for me, but I'm not dogmatic about it; I would delight in a superior method.
Certain inessential routines manage to escape the light of outside corroboration, which is comforting. These "Opaque Habits" would also incude: toilet paper techniques and eggcorns ("for all intents-and-purposes" vs. "for all intensive purposes").
I would like to believe that they act like vestigial organs or viruses. How would we trace their origins? Who is the "patient zero"? And who wears their wallets in their back pockets, anyway?
Posted by jeff at March 3, 2009 1:16 AM
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I hate keeping my wallet in my back pocket because it makes sitting not as painless. Weirdly I have been keeping in my back pocket more recently. It has nothing to do with my desire for more pain in my life. I have S&M tuesdays for that.
Posted by: rob | March 3, 2009 3:56 AM
agreed on cell phone in the front left pocket and wallet in the front right. To me that is a standard part of getting dressed.
Most of the time it goes pens on the left and keys on the right, but variables could be tossed in like coat pockets, no pockets, more items or the shirt pocket you mentioned.
Yesterday I put two pens in my shirt pocket and then went out on assignment. I forgot the pens were there, so I used my emergency red pen.
Posted by: Joel | March 3, 2009 1:36 PM
i do-
front breast pocket-
bus pass, atm card, passport (if im out drinking)
left pocket- inhaler, pen
right pocket- cell phone, change.
( i wear the same jacket everyday )
recently i have not been using toilet paper, but water. and i think that makes me bum bum cleaner, and i feel cleaner as well.
Posted by: jayme | March 3, 2009 8:00 PM
jeff,
i'm sorry i made fun of people who wipe sitting down. i recently acquired an understanding of not only its preferability, but its necessity.
see you in there,
esp
Posted by: erik | March 25, 2009 12:47 AM