The bag lady

[lectrix_lecti]

I tidied up a pile of my shoulder bags today, ending up cleaning three and binning four, but the interesting bit is what I found in them.

Let's have a list, shall we.

Various receipts and outdated train timetables

2 bags of sugar, apparently acquired in Rome

1 refreshing towelette, also apparently acquired in Rome

1 brownish-tinted lipbalm (the only lip-related thing with any colour I own, have been wondering where that was)

1 mobile phone headset (which went missing about a week after I bought the phone last year)

2 excellent gel-ink ballpoint pens

1 craptastic gel-ink ballpoint pen

2 yellow markers, dried up

1 refillable Ronson lighter, in beautiful gunmetal grey and silver colours (bought at the Tivoli in Copenhagen, where there's a brilliant tobacco shop)

8 (eight. E-I-G-H-T. For fuck's sake) non-refillable lighters

1 pocket hairbrush+mirror

1 camera bag, belonging to my Nikon APS

1 book (Truman Capote - Music for Chameleons)

1 microfibre cloth for cleaning glasses (been looking for that one for ages)

Jesus fucking Christ in thigh-high boots.

Note to self: if something goes missing, look in the various shoulder bags.

Note to self 2: when refilling a Ronson and checking if it works, and it doesn't, it's a bad idea to peer into it to see if anything's blocking something while still attempting to light it. It's potentially bad for fringes and eyebrows. Only marvellous reflexes will save said hair areas. Thankfully, one does have marvellous reflexes.


The irony is that I was looking for a specific bag. And didn't find it.