We all need fanny packs!!! I think my running career is over too!!! AMERICA!!!!!!!

Your purse just bit you and got you robbed. Who's dorky now?

We definitely have a mixed bag of things to discuss here, or should I say bags?  Or should I say waist-fastening bags?!  YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!  Fanny packs.  Let’s talk about them.  We had our first “discussion” about fanny packs back in may when I discovered the distance runner’s dirty little secret.  It’s not even that dirty…it’s just a link to my Camelbak blog.  It wasn’t a discussion either that’s why there are “”s around that.  Well time has progressed since ye auld fanny pack monologue, and we are in October.  In the moons twixt now and then I have learned many things.  I have learned that I can still lose things regardless of this incessant sobriety, and that things need to be carried around, AND things need to be carried around around my waist but not in an ugly way.  I know you’re wondering ‘why the waist?’  The reason you’re wondering that is the same reason why you would buy a bag just because it says the word ‘Coach’ on it.  You don’t think!  I’m going to make a whole list of reasons that fanny packs are better starting with number one…..

1.  Fanny-packs are theft deterrent.  Have you ever heard of anyone getting belt-snatched on the street?   NO you haven’t because it’s not easy to steal a belt.  Also, belts aren’t even that great.  Why don’t you just get pants that fit, and you won’t have to worry about people stealing your belt.  Jesus.

2.  You don’t have to put it down to do things with your hands.  Have you ever done anything with your hands?  It’s easier when you’re not holding something.  Hands-free, people!  don’t they make everything hands-free?  Why not our bags?  I’ll tell you why.  Sexism.  It’s true.  Men meet up in secret cigar rooms and plan this shit.  “Oh hey, how can we slow down those uppity dames?”  “I know!  Make them carry something at all times so that they are super slower when we are trying to chase them down the street.”

People are getting chased.  Not chaste.

3.  You’re dance moves are way better when you’re not holding a bag, and it makes everyone less (and more) nervous.  Have you ever been to a party and just didn’t want to put your purse down but needed it for one reason or another?  Annoying right?  At a club and you and all your girlfriends leave your purses in a pile while you dance?  That’s pretty stupid and nerve-racking and distracting enough to make you a target for being chased later when all the cigar-smoking males have become sex-crazed from lurking on the dance-floor.  Not chaste.

4.  You can hold your bfs hand while walking down the street without having to switch sides with your purse.  I don’t know why this is so annoying.  It just is.  I hate my shoulder bag, you guys.  But also I hear that I might not have to worry about hand-holding activities while wearing a fanny-pack because of the ‘dorkiness factor,’ and this is where I need all of you to come in and unite for a better future of being able to carry things without arms.  While we’re at it, think about the people without arms.  Don’t they deserve more attractive fanny-packs?  Don’t we all?

Also while we are on the subject of being chased, I have to put this out there in the hopes that maybe a doctor reads it.  This is my new form of seeking medical attention besides google since I don’t have health insurance.  I have not really been able to run for the past few weeks because of a pain that extends from the right of my lower back down to the front of my knee.  Because of this, I am experiencing a terrible sadness and many lower back pain google sessions.  I wish I had health care, America.

to be continued…

Half woman/half camel. Eat your peanut butter and jealous sandwich.