Wednesday, September 26, 2012 And Then My Purse Was Violated
Before I had a child, I never carried a purse.
I tried a few times in high school, but it never turned out well.
Once I left a purse (with way too much money for a high schooler to have on hand) on a bus we took to Canada for a day trip. The bus driver said he never saw the purse, and I certainly never saw the money again.
After that, I took to putting my essential cards and some cash in a pocket.
My general rule of thumb was back pocket for suburbs, front pocket for cities.
Then, I had a kid and got used to lugging around useless amounts of junk via a diaper bag because the baby industry had me thinking I needed to be prepared for a monsoon, a hurricane, a tornado and a terrorist attack at any given moment. And, believe me my fellow moms and I could have fed and entertained a small country had we needed to at nearly any given moment.
Being a mom of an only, I got to move on to a purse ahead of many of my peers and it was liberating. First it was a big purse and now it's down to a somewhat more reasonable size.
I keep nothing of earth shattering privacy in my purse and I'm sure many of you are the same and yet as a mother it is the one space in my house that is MINE. MINE! MINE! MINE!
And, then the hubs went digging around in there for who knows what a few weeks ago and I felt violated.
Heh.
Perhaps this is the key to I need to get out a little more.
Do you feel violated if someone goes in your purse without asking?
Reader Comments (2)
It's funny because chris refuses to go in my bag. He will bring it to me and I'm like just go in and find it... I think it has much more to do with the fact that there is a million things in there to feed, clean, and entertain 2 kids then it has to do with him respecting my privacy :-)
HA! See, I'm sort of the opposite. I WISH Marcus would go into my purse! He refuses. We have been together nearly 14 years and he STILL refuses to go in there without me absolutely begging. (Because sometimes I don't WANNA get up to get my debit card to pay the phone bill or pay for the pizza we are ordering!) I think perhaps he was scarred by a feminine hygeine product in a purse at some point in his youth.