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― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

left front pants: keychain, spare change, pencil sharpener

right front pants: wallet, folding knife

left rear pants: nothing

right rear pants: nothing

left shirt: pens pencils, cellphone

right shirt: few of these, but even when available, nothing.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

right back: wallet
right front: notebook, keys, change purse
left front: flashlight(occasionally), earplugs
left shirt: phone, pens

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, I forgot to mention my left shirt pocket almost always has a folding combo straightedge/protractor in it now.

Yes, really, I am that dorky.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

left back- nothing
right back- wallet
left front- cell phone, lip moisturizer
right front- keys, money, ipod occasionally

i never put anything in shirt pockets

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

front left = cellular phone
front right = wallet, keys
back left = subway card
back right = VOID

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

right front: wallet and spare change.
left front: lip balm, tissues (for weepy moments/allergies), lint.
No back pockets on a coat/anorak.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Front Right: Wallet, Phone, Keys
Front Left: iPod, Pen

BACK POCKETS ARE FOR CHUMPS WHO WANT TO BE PICKPOCKETED

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link

right front: phone, penis

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

right front: wallet, keys
left front: phone, IBD medicine

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Left: money, phone.
Right: keys.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 December 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep nothing on my pockets except the occasional change, everything is in my bag. I don't understand people who can just go out without a bag, with just a wallet in their coat pocket. I could never do that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

wallet in back pocket? how to sit down?

my cat pissed on my bag so i currently have more in pockets than usual.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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Banked off the left side, corner pocket.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah right before dom gets here: i keep a blue flag hanging out my backside -- but only on the left side, yeah that's the crip side.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

my cat pissed on my bag so i currently have more in pockets than usual.

Why do they fucking do this? My cat pissed on my housemate's art supply bag the other day and I had to replace all her stuff. I did tell everyone never, ever to leave stuff in the hall because the cat likes to piss on things before it goes to sleep on them (???) but nobody believes me.

Anyway, pockets. Coat: front right, dog lead, poo bags. Front left: other dog lead, sometimes dog biscuits. Trousers: front right, phone, keys. Front left: wallet, sometimes iPod.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

If going out and not carrying a bag:

Front right - empty
Front left - loose change, , phone, cigarettes, lighter (and yes, I do look very lumpy and lop-sided as a result)
Back right - wallet
Back left - empty, usually accommodates bus and train tickets once I'm out though

If I'm wearing a jacket/coat, these then tend to alternate around between coat and trouser pockets, but always on the left or right as listed above. I've worked this out as being for ease of access for the way I use once retrieved (as a left-handed person)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Keys: Bootlace round my neck.
Debit card/Money: front shirt pocket.
Receipts/Random notes/Change: anywhere.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

There should be keys between those two commas in my post.

I used to wear my keys on a bootlace round my neck before I got all growed up and needed a gazillion keys for things (three for house, four for work, two for car, etc)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I still have only one key. My pluralisation was superfluous.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Keys: left front trousers, except occasionally I will stick them in a random other pocket for no reason and later on have a five minute panic when I can't find them in the usual place. Last time it took me half a day to find them hiding under my camera and assorted other shit in my left inside coat pocket.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Who are these mentalists who put things in their back pockets? Don't you want to sit down and not be hugely uncomfortable?

Also wallet in back pocket = mentalism. Its the easiest pocket to steal from (apart from coat pockets maybe).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

See, no one puts anything in the little jean sidepocket!!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i sometimes do -- leads for my propelling pencil!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

RH trouser pocket = phone, keys, iPod when I'm not listening to it
LH trouser pocket = wallet
RH coat pocket = iPod when I'm listening to it
LH coat pocket = Travelcard wallet usually, for ease of access in the winter
Inside coat pocket = camera when I'm using it. Sometimes an A-Z as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

matt otm -- how do people shot wallets in back pocket? are you all dead poor or something?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

In all pockets = sundry receipts and sweet wrappers and things I should really throw away more often.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Shred the receipts DC! Have you not seen Watchdog?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

oh shit: post-it notes with bibliographical references/shopping lists/etc on them, stuffing my back pocket. then they get transferred to my desk at home.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

You're right Jel. I wouldn't want London's criminal underworld knowing that I bought some trout in Sainsbury's two days ago.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have a wallet so much as a little felt purse, just big enough for two bank cards, my RAC membership, my phone top-up card, my gym membership and a few bank notes. It fits just fine in my back pocket, but I did used to have a big old clunky man-wallet once and that fitted just fine too. Sitting down has never been a problem, in fact, I think it would be harder to sit down with a wallet in your front pocket as you tend to kind of bend around where the wallet would jab in most, is that not the case?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm all about trouser pockets:

Back left: wallet
Back right: money
Front right: small change & phone
Front left: DS Lite

It's very rare that I use coat/jacket pockets. I never break the above pocketing system.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I never have anything in my pockets. My handbag is bulging with crap, though.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Back left: wallet
Back right: money

uh?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

front left: phone
front right: loose change
rear left: wallet
rear right: nothing

various jacket pockets: everything else (currently lip balm, card wallet, work pass, zone card, keys, headphones, pen, pocket diary/planner, electronic quiz game, 1GB memory stick)

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh bnrqpaws. The secret is: I don't keep my money in my wallet.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

um...

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

So like, if someone takes my wallet, all I have to do is cancel the cards and go buy some more condoms with all the money I still have in my right back pocket, while whoever stole my wallet is forced to invent some kind of rubbish game using cancelled cards and two johnies that are well past their "fuck by" date.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

fyi

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

wht r u sayin?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Front left: wallet
Front right: keys
Back left: nowt
Back right: loose change

Phone location is jacket pocket if I'm wearing one; if not then one of the back pockets if I'm standing up, front right if I'm sitting down.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

left front: wallet
right front: phone, keys, oyster card, tissues

(these should ideally be the other way round! but left front has a massive hole in it which everything else falls through)

left & right back: sundry tickets and other forgotten unnoticeable stuff

right coat: discman, contact lens bobbins, nail clippers
left coat: many many cds! currently: scritti politti, white bread black beer; amerie, because i love it; ellen allien & apparat, orchestra of bubbles; paris hilton, paris; joanna newsom, ys; ciara, ciara: the evolution; trina, da baddest bitch
inside coat: nothing usually. sometimes an a to z

(coat pockets only applicable in winter)

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I can hardly believe no one else in sandilx carries a pocketknife.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i did but the polish army took it from me.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Front right: keys, knife
Front left: spare change
Back right: wallet
Back left: empty
When I'm wearing a shirt with a pocket, that's where the pen goes; otherwise it's clipped into the neckband of my t-shirt.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have become addicted to the shirt pocket to the point I refuse to buy or wear shirts that lack them.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

front left - phone
front right - wallet
back left - $20.50
back right - $0.10

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

front left - phone, keys, loose money
rear left - folded cleaning cloth for my glasses
rear right - wallet
front right - sometimes spillover from front left

― milo (milo), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

See, no one puts anything in the little jean sidepocket!!!

I keep my cell phone in there!!

L front: keys, change
R front: pen, chapstick
R front little pocket: cell
R back: wallet

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

front r: wallet, phone, keys.

THAT IS ALL

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always wondered about the ass-wallet thing, and apart from the main obvious "well that's what I was taught and I'm used to it" explanation, I think there might be a correlation having to do with ass size and trouser-fitting. Basically I used to wonder why a round-assed person like me would be more uncomfortable about this than plenty of bony-assed guys, and then it occurred to me that if your ass is round your trousers are going to conform to it more tightly, and so the wallet will be held right in place and sat noticeably on top of -- whereas I'm starting to think that assless guys in droopy jeans can drop whatever they want in their back pockets because when they sit down the objects are more likely to kinda fold or droop out of the way, or just get propped up against the chair or whatever, so they're not sitting rigidly right under you.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My wallet is curved to the shape of my ass.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I'm surprised some of you keep pens in your pockets! (Though again, this might have to do with my having big thighs and tight trousers -- if I put a pen in some of my front pockets, chances are it'd snap in half as soon as I went into a bit of a jog.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I put in a pen in my pocket I end up poking myself, or forgetting and leaving it in the wash.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

> Every time I put in a pen in my pocket I end up poking myself, or forgetting and leaving it in the wash.

This is a major factor in my shirt pocket addiction. I like to always have sketching tools handy, and a shirt pocket is far, far safer than a pants pocket for such supplies.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, Madchen -- I was going to say, giant handbag to thread.

Nibs: less tight trousers are clearly not an option!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i got this awesome new jacket where phone goes in one pocket, and wallet in the other. keys stay in my bag all day.

if i put stuff in pants pockets, i tend to just use the back ones, then take everything out when i sit.

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Empty pockets. I inevitably leave the one thing I really need in the wrong pocket so I keep everything necessary in the same bag and always take that with me.

I used to carry a pocket knife (Leatherman, really) but had to go to federal court and forgot about that whole "no weapons in federal court" thing and had to give it to some stranger out on the street since I thought hiding anything in the bushes outside a federal building would look a wee bit suspect.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

laurel my man's gotta look slammin

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Front right: Wallet, keys
Front left: Cigarettes, lighting implement, change
Back right: Occasionally a paperback
Back left: Never anything but drugs and wrappers and used tickets and whatnot.

The cell phone often travels in one of the front pockets too if I don't have a coat with a breast pocket on.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

back right: wallet
back left: misc reciepts/notes/tissues/etc
front right: phone, keys, change
front left: cigarettes, lighter

― v (sleep), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm starting to think you people who put cigs and keys and etc in your front pockets don't have any legs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan's bandmate to whom I affectionately refer as "Pockets" to thread...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not saying I wear lycra or "skinny jeans" or anything, just that I'm not walking around in the kind of big-ass raver pants it would take for a guy with my thighs to go sticking pens in his pockets. If I bought trousers much bigger they'd wind up getting way too long for me, plus I'd have do so a comedy-yokel cinching at the belt.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I recommend a length of extension cord for that.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stand the 'pull the wallet out put it back thing from the back pockets' and it's way easier to pickpocket a rear pocket so I use the front ones, but my wallet's not super thick and I've learned to stack things, even in relatively tight pants, like jeans (yes, even I sometimes wear jeans), so that, say, the heavier lighter is at the bottom of the pocket and the lighter cigarettes are above. If things get too tight, I put the cigs in a case that I carry in my interior right breast pocket of my jacket.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Front left: Wallet, keys (except for in winter when keys sometimes go in right coat pocket [iPod is in left coat pocket]), change
Front right: Cell phone, cigarettes/lighter (when I have them)
Back left: Misc. receipts, other things I don't want to lose, and recently passport (during the time when the cops had confiscated my drivers license)
Back right: Nothing

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I recommend a length of extension cord for that.

I gotta go with the bungee cord - for comfort AND versatility.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan's bandmate to whom I affectionately refer as "Pockets" to thread...

I used to keep all my stuff in my pockets on-stage until someone made a snarky remark about it, so now as soon as I get on-stage, I empty my pockets and put wallet, keys, and phone in one of the zippered compartments on my keyboard bag.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

how do you keep smokes in front pocket without crushing them? i can do it will a full pack (as long as it's a box and not a soft pack) but once there's only 5 or so smokes left i'll wind up snapping them. TOO EXPENSIVE FOR THAT.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ "Pockets"

I don't know Nabisco, I have some big ol' thighs but I guess I wear big pants too. Pens and keys are bulge-y enough in my front pockets, and can't imagine sticking my wallet up in there.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

-- otto midnight

i guess my jeans aren't tight enough :/
also if i'm wearing a jacket the bulkier stuff (cigs and keys) goes in those pockets

― v (sleep), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The whole pockets thing is madness as it only needs a change of clothes and I'm setting off to work with no oystercard and no money/bankcards etc.

I'd use a handbag if I thought I could get away with it.

― Bob Six (Bob Six), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

front l: money/keys/phone
back r: required plastic (usu just dl and cc)

no purse.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

One lighter, left pocket, that's it.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Front left: lighter, keys, cell phone and cigarettes if I'm not wearing a jacket with pockets.
front right: wallet
back l+r: nothing

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to carry a money clip with DL and CC sandwiched between a few bills, but I gave in and started carrying a wallet about a year ago. It's thin enough to go in my front pocket when I'm in a city of any size. (My town is not crime-free, but there's no problem with pickpocketry.)

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

do you bum all your ciggies abbott?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

or maybe you don't smoke and you just carry the lighter in case you see something you want to set on fire?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Non-smokers may also carry lighters to offer smokers a light. It's a fairly standard ruse, actually.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I try to keep my pants pockets clear and keep everything in my jacket pockets. That way the pants wear out less and I don't have to go looking for things in the morning.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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