Just a thought....

**Catdad** · 2nd November 11, 02:20 PM

It wasn't until I started wearing kilts and sporrans that I developed an appreciation of why it takes so long for women to find things in their purses. It's because whatever you happen to be looking for at any given moment is always at the bottom.

**brewerpaul** · 2nd November 11, 02:36 PM

I always make sure my whiskey flask is on the top, the heck with the cell phone and wallet.

**Caddy One** · 2nd November 11, 03:10 PM

So true........................

**xman** · 2nd November 11, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Catdad

It wasn't until I started wearing kilts and sporrans that I developed an appreciation of why it takes so long for women to find things in their purses. It's because whatever you happen to be looking for at any given moment is always at the bottom.

If that were true then you could easily find it by reaching directly to the bottom of the sporran, but this doesn't happen. The truth is that what you are looking for knows you are looking for it and it avoids your grasp by jumping behind other objects when your hand goes in the bag. I give them less thing to hide behind and stack the odds in my favour.

**GoodGirlGonePlaid** · 2nd November 11, 03:19 PM

Hahaha So true!

It's equal to the mystery of why one elusive sock always manages to escape being brought out of the dryer.

**FatherWilliam57** · 2nd November 11, 03:25 PM

Even after nearly 30 years of marriage, I never go into my wife's purse (even when she asks me to) and she never goes in my wallet. I would not be surprised to find Jimmy Hoffa at the bottom of her purse. Just a scary place that I choose never to venture into.

As for the missing socks: I am always amazed at how many of those escaped socks can be found run down by cars and lying near the curb on the street downtown. (Obviously they were running quickly for the sidewalk but never made it...and I never see them near a crosswalk.)

**rondo** · 2nd November 11, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by WBHenry

Even after nearly 30 years of marriage, I never go into my wife's purse (even when she asks me to)...

So true this ^... In my mind (not my wife's), a total violation of one's most private space.

Rondo

**sydnie7** · 2nd November 11, 03:47 PM

I select only purses that have, at minimum, a divider and one or two interior pockets -- along the lines of some bespoke sporrans we've seen here. No matter how cute, I refuse to subject myself to any purse that is just one big bag of lostness! I don't understand how other women can live with 'em.

**Downunder Kilt** · 2nd November 11, 04:18 PM

Here we have the classic definition challenge in the english language. A purse in Australia is the equivalent of a mens wallet to keep cash and credit cards in, yet in the US I believe it refers to what we call is a ladies handbag.
In relation to the similarities of a sporran and a ladies handbag in getting things lost therein, I would say that the ladies handbag wins hands down.

**pugcasso** · 2nd November 11, 05:46 PM

The truth is that what you are looking for knows you are looking for it and it avoids your grasp by jumping behind other objects when your hand goes in the bag

I think someone needs to design a sporran with a tumbling internal compartment with a crank on the outside - at least you'll keep those items inside from knowing where up or down will be and ruin their schemes of avoiding being found.

(this thread made me think of a weird idea for an animated short film ... the items inside the sporran all are animated with faces and talk to one another when the sporran is closed - they're complaining about always being taken out and being blinded by the sudden glaring sun when the sporran is opened - perhaps they are planning a great escape ...then you hear this voice from far below ... the shoes complain "at least you don't have to stare up his kilt all day")

Ok, hopefully someone else has as weird s sense of humour as me