Posted on 07/14/2006 1:46:02 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
What is your personal Linus-type security blanket? As you might know, Linus from "Peanuts" is constantly rubbing a blanket against his cheek as a form of neurotic security. However, in real life, many of us have our own form of security blanket.
In my own case it is my leather fanny pack that I wear around my waist. I stick my money, cell phone, radio, sunglasses, dental floss, pens, and other stuff in there so it is very practical. However, I have developed an incredible NEUROTIC dependency on my leather fanny pack. This was brought home a couple of days ago when the belt part of the fanny pack broke. Since I couldn't get a replacement fanny pack until today, I tossed the entire fanny pack into a cloth bag for a day and kept incessantly rubbing it for assurance. Yes, I know it sounds stupid but, just as Linus is dependent upon his blanket, I am dependent upon my fanny pack. All day yesterday I had a sickening feeling of emptiness and insecurity until I bought my new fanny pack this morning. Now I feel whole again as well as secure.
Okay, I just made a complete fool of myself by exposing my complete emotional dependency on a leather fanny pack so now it is YOUR TURN to reveal your neurotic objects of dependency. Don't hold back. Confess ALL.
The Lord first, then my hubby. :-)
Oh, that's easy. Beer, Doritos and FR.
Um....some would say it's right here on FR!
I'm actually surprised that MORE people don't wear fanny packs. Especially men. Women have purses but men need someplace to put all there stuff.
"Women have purses but men need someplace to put all there stuff."
What "stuff"?
I forgot. That accountant in "The Producers" also had a small security blanket. He went NUTS when Max Bialystock took it away from him.
Stuff like cell phones, sunglasses, radios, dental floss, money, pens, etc..
That is a man-purse, son. ;)
A Sig P220!
You have FPF.
(Fanny Pack Fetish)
What a pansy! You need Doritos?
Worse than you think. While I had my fanny pack in my cloth bag yesterday, I had to constantly rub it for reassurance.
I know this is a somewhat lighthearted thread, but I have a 15 year Alcoholic's Anonymous coin that I got from my father after he passed away. He spent the last 15 years of his life alcohol free,and volunteered in AA three nights a week.
What a marvelous, great man. I miss him so much. But of all the things he did in his life, kicking alcohol, after being an alcoholic since his teenage days (albeit a completely functional one)
So, that is my touchstone. Every day, as I put it in my pocket, I look at that coin and say to myself "One day at a time."
If it worked for him, it can work for me!
Wallet, keys, pocket knife. I travel light!
Let's see:
Wallet in my pocket.
Keys and pocketknife in my pocket.
Cellphone clipped to my belt.
Sunglasses and/or a pen in my shirt pocket.
Don't see a need for a purse. Perhaps I'm just not "Metro" enough.
I have a blanket. A friend of my mother's who had a sewing business made it for me when I was about 16. The one I'd had for the previous 16 years wore out. I also have a stuffed dog that I've slept with since I was 8. His name is "New Dog."
I forgot. Sometimes I stick those tiny bottles of whiskey in my fanny pack.
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