Pockets Of Brightness
One of the problems of being colourblind is that my eyes are very sensitive to light.
The good thing about this is that I can see in the dark. Not totally, but I can see really well without much light.
The bad thing is that I squint a lot and wear sunglasses when it’s bright out. This brings with it the obvious concern that people think you’re trying to look cool. Not so much a problem in London and Milan, but if you you’re walking around somewhere that isn’t cool, you look like an idiot.
Another downside of this (and fucking hell I’m wierd) is that that I don’t like carrying shit around in my pockets. There must be a name for this condition. God knows that they’ve named every other discomfort.
Jones’s Syndrome? Actually they probably have that already. Something Welsh, doubtless, where you end all your sentences, even statements of fact, with “isn’t it?”
Thisitis?
Either way, modern life sucks at our souls and stuffs our pockets. Today alone, as I write this, I have in my pockets a flash drive with blog and book on it, wallet, iPod and phone - just in case I have to dump my bag and still need to listen to music, post to the web, make a phone call, buy stuff or donate an organ.
So when you add sunglasses to this, it’s a considerable bulk for a body to cart.
One of my blogging commandments is: “I will never start a post with the words ‘These days…’ “, but - um, now, everything is smaller but not small enough. I’m not saying I want my phone to be a choking hazard, but maybe some scientists at the Institute of Thisitis in Switzerland or somewhere could invent something that converges all my shit.
I don’t know, sunglasses which are an accepted form of payment that play music and store files while keeping me in touch with my friends.
The pocket market would collapse at the news, and the Freres LaPoche factory would have to close down, but I they’ve been on borrowed time since the emergence of clips.
I don’t know how it would happen - all I know is that there’s a market for it.
March 1st, 2007 at 11:05 am
I feel your pain. Plus, being a speccy I have to carry around two pairs of glasses when it’s sunny and, because my (prescription) sunglasses are an odd (extremely cool, obviously) shape, they live in a large, unwieldy case that I’ve yet to find a pocket big enough to cater for.
And keys scratch everything.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I was going to suggest some kind of man bag… but you say you have a bag. Hmm. Still, look at it this way - at least you get some kind of choice, the majority of the time girls don’t even have pockets.
I expect your wish will be granted soon though, it seems to be the trend. You can already get phones which do practically everything, and it’s surely only a small step away from those bluetooth thingammies to make the earpiece/mic into a full set of glasses. It is also sadly one step closer to becoming The Terminator, I think.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I was on the same lines as FB with the man bag but they still don’t look ‘that’ good and you can leave them behind and lose everything.
They need to invent a version of the Swiss Army Knife with snap-on essentials!
I couldn’t BEAR to put things in my pockets because they’d fall out and get squished on a regular basis.
Bum-bag??
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 am
I’m a woman and cannot go anywhere without a handbag… even if I’m not carrying with me a lot of stuff, I still take my handbag… It’s not uncomfortable at all, and I never leave it back anywhere. I also think it is much much safer than carrying things in the pocket. I sometimes try to do that, but then I’m always very concerned that things are going to slip out.