#077 Pocket Change

Women carry purses so they have all of their daily-needed belongings in one location, to be with them at all times. Men, on the other hand, are expected to carry all of their daily-needed belongings in a wallet that goes in their pocket, and whatever else they need goes in whatever other pockets happen to be on their clothing that particular day. While this is more inefficient than what women do, men are not and should not be expected to carry a purse or anything of the like (at least not where I'm from!).

So if you use cash, as fewer and fewer of us are doing these days, you are likely to end up with some change in coins. While women have change purses to store loose change, men typically do not. And for some reason unbeknownst to me, men tend to accumulate massive more amounts of change than women.

I've noticed that men tend to collect this change in their pockets, and once it's in there it's for some reason irresistible to them: they can't stop jingling the coins together in their pocket! Is it a nervous habit? Are they just generally fidgety? Whatever the reason they do it, it absolutely drives me crazy.