Prompt - Pocket : Rummage through your pockets and write about what you keep or find in your pockets
Pockets. Pre or post pandemic? Summer or Winter? Wet or dry? The contents of my pockets vary, albeit to a fairly limited degree. Take away the hot weather and there are more little pouches within which to carry objects, as jackets and coats are donned to cope with cool, cold, wet. So I'll go with the simplest - now. A hot day, but one where we are still entered closed buildings with our face masks on, where we keep our distances. just jeans and tee, few pockets. Enough for the essentials.
Front left. Wallet, container of the various cards that get frequent use (the list topped by the debit card used to buy food, and my buss pass), with today's face mask of choice. Front right contains my phone, a handkerchief (I'm old fashioned that way), and my keys once I leave home. Rear left has a small pouch, containing a decent sized shopping bag, for those moments when you suddenly find yourself given, or purchasing, an item that won't fit into your restricted spaces. And rear right, the most covid related of all the pockets, for it contains a spare face mask. And has done since the day last summer when I ran for a bus, pulled on my mask as I ran, and the elastic broke. It's not easy to use your card and hang on to the rails as the bus moves, because you've got one hand up to the side of your face holding the offending mask in place...
Beyond those basics it all depends on where I'm going, what I'm planning to do, who I'm going with or meeting. If I have a bag, usually a backpack, with me it takes in most of the extra items. But without one my jackets might accommodate a book or ereader, maybe my Gemini if I plan on writing, maybe a notebook if I'm going to be reviewing, perhaps tickets to an event or a snack for later. Pockets are amazing, and I'm not surprised that women feel delighted when their dresses have a couple. I'm a big fan of pockets...
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