The Man Purse!

Well I have finally figured it out! Men constantly complain about everything we ladies carry in our purses. Yes, we carry everything. You never know when you are going to need most of those things and of course, if you have kids, you are going to need them at the spur of the moment. What will you find in mine? Well lets take a look. The obvious of course would be a check register. A check register only because I no longer write checks thanks to the awesomeness of debit cards. My drivers license, library card, health insurance cards, sams card that expired a year ago, a receipt from sonic where evidently i bought something good to eat one day last month. A full bottle of Advil liquid gels, paint samples (muted gold and red fox), a recipe for Spicy buffalo beer dip (come to think of it, I'm kinda hungry), used napkin, a paper from a straw (probably sonic), two tubes of lipstick (couldn't tell you what shade due to the sticker on bottom being too worn out to tell), three tubes of chap stick, a set of car keys that i am not sure what vehicle they go to and how long i have actually been carrying them. I also have a handy dandy day planner to keep track of all my appointments and events in my busy little life and 20 more receipts from lord knows when and what I bought and why i have kept them all this time. A nail file is always a necessity for a woman so I carry one in my purse. I also have a small bottle of vitamins that i placed there 6 months ago so I would never be without a healthy dose at any given day. No, I do not take vitamins on a daily basis, but you never know when you may need one. Hand sanitizer!!! How does anyone ever go without that is beyond my understanding. It must be carried at all times these days.

I have told you all this to come to one point. How in the world do men not carry a purse? Where in the the world do they keep all the important things that you need within reach at any instant? Today I have discovered the answer that has eluded me for many years. Men don't carry a purse because they carry all their crap in their trucks. Yes my blogger friends, you heard it here first. Have you ever seen a man's truck? They carry everything in the world on wheels. Just today my brother bought a new truck. He had to dump everything from his "old" truck in my driveway so he could trade it for his new truck. You should see the stuff they carry. Some contraption on a pole that allows you to spray paint the ground while standing up. And I didn't even know you ever needed to do that. Twenty pair of gloves, 5 hammers, an ungodly amount of drill bits, sockets, nails, screws, screwdrivers, pliers, pipe wrenches, jumper cables, ropes, bungee cords, zip ties, chains, wire brushes, oil, brake fluid, WD40 and more gloves. All that just in the bed. So what do you find in the cab you ask? Well ladies, let me tell you. Receipts and lots of them. For $2 to $5 at a time. Hey, they needed a coke and a burrito. Oh, and of course the burrito wrappers. Old news papers and more gloves will always be found because you never know when they will come in handy(no pun intended). Manuals for any and everything, cheese and peanut butter crackers that I am sure were purchased sometime in 2007 but still use full when a hunger pain hits. Ten pair of safety glasses and caps from every oil field company with in a 100 mile radius. Half empty Dr. Pepper bottles and a dozen completely empty cigarette packets. Pens, pens, and more pens.

Now you know the real truth as to why men don't carry a purse. All I ask is you NEVER look inside my truck. LOL!