I hate purses

I mean, of course when out shopping I always head straight for the purse section. And I do have a few of them - not lots, but more than enough. My favourite is a mustard yellow one I bought in Poland a couple years ago...it's smallish, rectangle, with a zip, one inside compartment and a really long strap. For me, it's a deal breaker if the purse doesn't have a long enough strap. Anyway, I never use that purse. It's because I like it too much, of course! So instead, I use one of my other purses. They're all basically the same. Big. Huge. One massive compartment that's big enough to fit some files from the office, or a change of clothes and some make-up. Don't get me wrong. I like my big purses....it's just that they frustrate me to no end!

Like this morning, Monday, of course. I drive up to the Costco gas bar....and reach into my massive cave purse that's growing by the second to look for my wallet. No easy feat. I pull out my wallet, upside-down of course, and all of my cards empty into the bottom of my purse. It takes me another 5 attempts of groping into the bottom of my purse before I find the Costco membership card. I need to resort to dumping the entire contents of my purse onto the front seat of the car before I can find my debit card underneath my container of leftover spagetti. (Lunch.) Only wasted about 7 minutes. Not bad if I only had to waste 7 minutes once a day. But nope. Not me. I go through this exact same process exactly 6 more times before the day is through. Six. Count 'em.
1. Tim Horton's drive through to buy a lemon tea. Cost $1.35 - coins, all at the bottom of my purse. Good thing the line up at the drive through was ubber long, and the person in front of me ordered coffee's and breakfast sandwiches for everybody in their office, because I needed that full 11 minutes in the drive through line to find two bucks. Oh. And the change from the tea. I dumped it back into my purse, of course.
2. Elevator at work. Of course, in this day and age of high tech security, I need to swipe my ID card across the black box inside the elevator so that I can get to my 4th floor office. Because I have to do this every day, I used my smarts and attached my ID card to a purple lanyard that goes around my neck. That makes it easy to find in my purse. You'd think. Time wasted looking in my purse for my lanyard and ID swipe card....4 minutes.
3. Office keys...On my office keychain I have 13 keys, a purse sized rosary thingy, and a special cylinder key for my computer lock, and a mini flipflop (souvenier from Jamaica) - all strategically added to make my office keys easy to find. Not! But, no time wasted here....I keep a single spare office door key in my secretary's desk. Smart.
4. After work, have to stop at the pet store for some dog food. I did find my airmiles card quickly...only one grope at the bottom of my purse and instant success! Too bad my total purchase only came to $12.69 - You need to spend a minimum $15.00 to be able to use your airmiles card. Darn.
5. Next door to Shoppers Drug Mart - just needed 1 thing, but little did I know they'd have my fave Oil of Olay soap bars on sale - a 4 pack for $1.99 (regularly $7.99)....and a bunch of other random products that I discovered I really, really needed (ya right)....but alas....and I know you know how this is going to end by now....could not for the life of me find my Shoppers Drug Mart optimum card so that I could get the loyalty points for my $33.43 purchase. The cashier let me look for a loonnnggg time before she informed me that I have 30 days to bring in my card and receipt and they'll add the points for me!
6. While dinner was baking, I dumped my purse on the counter and put everything back in its place.

After all, I'm pretty sure I'll be repeating this scenaria again soon.

Until tomorrow...

Wanda