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radicaledward's avatar

That dude rules.

Even before the smartphone era and well into it, I would carry nothing with me wherever I went except for my wallet (and sometimes not even that!). Leave my phone at home. Who needs keys? I'd just go out in a way that feels naked now.

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Taegan MacLean's avatar

I often walk around with my video camera for that exact reason: “the moment may strike where I’ll need footage for my next word”

But walking for the afternoon and maybe heading to the sento feels like a slice of that profound ordinary my generation can talk a lot about but never live inside. I admire his bath bag!

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Anita Young's avatar

I always carry a small note book and pen, and toothbrush. If I'm going out and about, quite often a book. And...ALWAYS....sunglasses.

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Jayson Young's avatar

So you are ready to look cool at a moment's notice.

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Robert Hilke's avatar

Definitely sunglasses. Nagoya is a car town. Gotta have them when I move around. By car, of course.

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You-Con Cornelius's avatar

I like the idea of this bath-bag a whole lot. Maybe because it also feels a bit like being apocolypse-ready all the time. Or, like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says, you always should carry a towel. That's always stuck with me, and seemed important.

My friend's father used to bring a single oatmeal cookie with him for every car ride. He had a part in his car's console that he called his cookie-pocket. I think it's nice to have small enjoyments to look forward to like that.

Gotta have a chapstick with me.

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Marcel Ryan's avatar

Beautifully stated message at the end there.

I have a small leather satchel that I purchased in Florence and used to wear whenever I traveled abroad. I don't wear it on my home turf for fear of ridicule. If I can get over myself, I think I'd like to start wearing it more often. A satchel is mighty useful and can carry a number of other useful things.

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Robert Hilke's avatar

I enjoyed your bath-bag post. I did, however, feel a slight snicker coming on when you expressed amazement that "someone of that age" could, what? Still be alive and mobile? ;-)

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Jayson Young's avatar

Haha! Guilty as charged. Let me just say that if I'm as ambulatory as he is when I reach that number of years, I will be pleasantly surprised.

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