Comments on: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:26:02 +0000

I’ve determined that some of the most charming, intelligent, kind and good men are losers of things. My son has lost so many jackets and bicycles I can’t count, training for eventually losing his car after a night of partying. I don’t believe he ever found it but I don’t want to know. My husband regularly loses almost everything so I had a great laugh at Pru’s story. Just tonight he couldn’t find the almond extract for the cherry pie he was making, and I pulled it right out of the cupboard he was searching frantically in. Once again, Pru makes my day.

By: Carine

Carine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:23:27 +0000

I recently got him a bag, and it’s working (to some degree)! Now if only I had gotten it in something other than yellow canvas, it might not look so grungy…

By: Carine

Carine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:21:17 +0000

My husband is so good at losing things–may I add to your list: the dog, at least a hundred leashes, MY keys, the telephone, and if we’d had any, the kids–that I wrote a book about it. It’s called Sex, Cheese and French Fries–Women are Perfect, Men are from France. He thinks it’s hilarious!

By: julie markovitz

julie markovitz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:34:13 +0000

So funny to be reading this now… I just came home from Whole Foods Market with lunch for myself, hungry teen boys and their friends to discover that my “woman bag” felt way too light… omg… wallet is missing… called WF right away and thankfully lovely Christine spotted it in the shopping cart I used.
I’m a bit like “Tim”, always carrying around so much stuff…water bottle, book, purse, and often my yoga mat. I’d better cut this short and be on my way back to WF to retrieve my turquiose blue wallet! Hopefully it still has the credit cards and money :0

By: tim

tim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:05:45 +0000

i can only quote the late great thespian curly joe howard who when similarly insulted would exclaim, “hey, i resemble that remark!”

my man-bag itself (i call it a man-purse, by the way, i’m not ashamed) is going to get lost some day, with everything in it. it’s inevitable. then what do i use? maybe i just don’t leave the house after that.

By: Proinsias

Proinsias — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0000

You are such a good writer, Pru. Glad you are not my Boswell, documenting my unclever goofs with such cleverness. Kimberly-Clark would love you for driving readers to wear Depends.

By: Conz

Conz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:24:51 +0000

Pru–I swear we are married to brothers from different mothers. Oh, the stories I could tell about shame and panic. Our friend Joe, carries a man-bag that he vehemently calls his “herren-tashe” (sorry Germans, if I spelled that wrong). I think it makes him feel less womanly, though my asking to borrow his lipstick probably doesn’t help.

I often remind my absent-minded professor, that my ovaries did not come installed with a homing device, and what’s up with the refrigerator blindness?

Too, too funny and so, so sad. Thanks for the laugh.