random question of the day

[firecat]

Inspired by a friend's (locked) post:

What is the weirdest thing you regularly carry in your purse/pockets/fanny pack/backpack/whatever you usually carry?

Two chopstick rests

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

My birthmother carries a small package of marbles. she claims it's so no one can say she's lost hers.
The oddest thing in my bag currently is an expandable grocery bag, which is not really odd. Or the folding pair of scissors.

[snippy]

I always have at least one handkerchief, and usually two.

That may not sound weird, but how many people do you know who actually carry handkerchiefs on a daily basis?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

How come?

[firecat]

I know one other person who does. I currently have a home-made cloth napkin in my bag, but not on a daily basis.

[firecat]

kyubi gave them to me. They seem happy in there and make me smile.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Coolness!

I went and grabbed my bag to ascertain its weirdness quotient. Guess the weirdest thing in there is probably a chapbook of poetry from one of the worst poets I've ever heard read.

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

A tiny miniature ouija board. I made it in 1987, when I was thirteen years old and a ouija board freak. It's kind of scaring me that I've been carrying this thing around with me for almost twenty years.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

My usual bag is either the day-glow yellow messenger bag I take to work or the pirate booty bag (http://www.talklikeapirate.com/knitlikeapirate.html), both of which are weirder than anything I carry inside them. Unless you consider carrying a knitting project everywhere you go weird. (-:

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always have string bags with me.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I'm sure there's a lot of competition from both inside and outside the backpack. Maybe the (Harry Potter) wizard coins can have the title for today.

Asian style face mask

[iceblink.livejournal.com]

I always carry a face mask with me just in case I might be where there are a TON of sick people. But mine has little kawaii things stiched on it, like a panda, 4-leaf clover, or bunny.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

A human tooth? If not that, probably the fairy ball.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

A tuning fork. I got stopped by airport screeners because of it once. Or maybe it was because I had three of them. They seemed to think it was a giant roach clip.

[leandra333.livejournal.com]

A small rock from Puget Sound

[baratron.livejournal.com]

My notebook. It is not, in itself, intrinsically weird, but some of the notes contained within it are exceedingly random...

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

About a dozen vials of BPAL in all scents.

Or maybe the measuring tape on my keychain.

N.

[punkmom.livejournal.com]

Three knitting projects - but that's not particularly weird. Perhaps the tape measure might be a little weird...

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

(ok, I work in a medical office w/ a high senior citizen population) I know TONS of people who carry hankies.

No, I don't smoke

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Tobacco. I carry it in a little round metal tin that used to hold mints.

A friend of mine who's Native American talked me into watching the Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man, and afterwards he kept asking if I had any tobacco. It's sort of a recurring thing in the movie. Has to do with dying and the afterlife and it's just a good thing to have. So I went out and bought some pipe tobacco, and I've carried it around ever since.

[dbubley.livejournal.com]

There's nothing really weird now, but I tend to wear out my fanny pack by accumulating way too many coins.

I used to carry practically everything in my bag, and it was rather heavy. A friend once said, "I'll bet you even have a flashlight in there?" Normally I did not, but by chance I had just put a huge flashlight in there for a specific purpose, and hadn't taken it out yet. I often thought about buying a toy kitchen sink just in case somebody said something.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

I don't know how weird this is (I know some pretty weird folk but...) usually in my purse/backpack is: A sock monkey, a rock from (I can't say where) far away, a 64mg usb memory stick, a French 20 centime piece, a German deutchmark.

Re: No, I don't smoke

[dbubley.livejournal.com]

Does it make your bag smell wonderful. I don't smoke, either, but I love the smell of pipe tobacco (usually hate a cigar smell, although I think my guardian angel smokes one.)

Re: No, I don't smoke

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Actually, one reason I put it in the little metal tin was so it didn't smell up the purse, but the tobacco itself is kind of chocolately. Almost makes me want to get a pipe :)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I am so humiliated: I have nothing weird or even remotely interesting in my bag. I don't even carry knitting with me!

I confess I am enchanted by all the things that others carry in their bags. I may have to find something to put in my bag just so the next time this comes around I have something to say.

[firecat]

Back at you: Why?