unattractive accessories

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, peabwain <peabwain at y...> 
wrote:
> Here is a funny story I found in my sisters online
> diary. I told her to post it on this list, but she
> wouldn't. So I did it. 
> 
> Over the weekend I found out that my husband is a
> girl. 
> Jeff has this annoying habit of choosing... err...
> really unattractive accessories. He got a new digital
> camera for his birthday, and he loves it and that's
> great, but he wants to take it everywhere, and he
> chooses to haul it around in a fanny pack. I refuse to
> be seen with him when he's wearing it.

>snip<

> I told this husband of mine that if he really wanted
> to take his camera with him everywhere,  we could get
> him a nice camera bag to put it in. That way he
> wouldn't be so horribly socially unacceptable. And if
> we couldn't find a nice camera bag, we'd find him a
> lovely purse.

> snip<

> Well... (to make a short story really long), he found
> himself a nice black one with *enough* pockets. He
> doesn't like to call it a fanny pack, because it's
> "offensive" he says. So he calls it  his "mansack". Oh
> yeah! <rolls eyes again> Mansack is MUCH better! 
> Peabwain--who knows that her sister is going to stop
> buying her tasty snacks when she finds out I've posted this.
> 
> 

Well, here's something  I've been wondering about for a long time now 
(well, not really, but this story did jog my brain a bit)

I remember when I went to Italy (last time  was 1989) that some men 
would carry a "mansack", to quote peabwain.  I mean, it would kind of 
look like a large, mens grooming bag, as we have here in the US, but 
I really think that it was indeed a mans "purse".

  Some would just have a small strap that  would fit around  the 
mans' wrist, and some actually had straps long enough that they  
would either carry them strapped accross their chest (from left 
shoulder, say, to right hip), and others  would actually carry them 
like womens' purses, hanging from one shoulder.
 
I remember at that time that men's clothing over there was so TIGHT, 
that I don't think they (men) could squeeze in a bill in any pocket 
if their life depended on it.__

So, my question for all you non-USA folk, does such a thing still 
exist over there?  (anyone have a clue what I'm talking about or am I 
just way too old?)

Well, Peabwain, if the case is still so, then your husband/in law 
(sorry, lost the relation) could just say that "it's the latest thing 
in Paris", (hee!hee!) or something of  that sort.

Sound good?

Anna . . .(who can't even get her own DH to carry his own tissues, 
er, clean ones I mean {ok, no eeeeewwwws!})
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