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Article: My purse is a weighty matter.(The Home Forum)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 4, 2002
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Byline: Elizabeth Weber
Ken exits our downtown hardware store, meeting me on the sidewalk. He's just purchased three drill bits. We have more shopping to do. "Would you put these in your purse?" he asks.
"There's a limit to what this thing holds," I reply. Although much of what my purse contains is shared - checkbook, video rental card, car keys - Ken disavows any responsibility for the purse's contents or whereabouts, even as he expects free access to make deposits and withdrawals.
Sure enough, when I heft my handbag his way to demonstrate its weight, he deftly drops the drill bits inside. Yet on rare occasions when he agrees to hold ...