My space.

....Is that they make you prime target for a snatch thief.

A few weeks back I was reading an article in 'The Star' newspaper, which I forget the title, but it was about snatch theives and how to curb the thefts and put a stop to them. It didn't take me 2 minutes of reading to realize that the writer was not at all for the woman who was the poor victim of the snatch theif, and what more, he was blaming them also!

The gist of the article was :

' Okay so what do you expect? you carry a handbag, stuff all your stuff in it, and strut around with it just barely hooked over your shoulder, and then you scream and cry when your bag is snatched when obviously you were the one who invited the thief to come along anyway! Women just care about making a fashion statement more than being practical, Away with the bags!! '

Well.

My first thought after I read this piece was " For sure my dad called him before and dictated to him what to say, because his words are exactly my dads, he took them right out of his mouth! "

And my second thought was, and I even surprised myself, "He's right!"

Even though I hate to admit it, he was right.

Ever since the theft of my mothers handbag which brought so many complications because it held his passports, over $8,000 dollars, birth certificates etc.etc. (you get the idea) my father has become enemies with all handbags.

It has come to the point that whenever I buy a new bag, I have to hide it and sneak it into the house when he is not looking.

It's so bad that he absolutely refuses to give me anything whatsoever of his possessions to put into my bag, because, as he says " What, so someone can come along and snatch your bag with my things in it? I dont think so " (and then I roll my eyes behind his back).

And of course, my father had gave us women of the house 101 lectures on the topic of the bag, which all boiled down to one thing : Ditch the bag.

What! ditch my bag!! You have to be joking. What would I do without my bag! I need to put all my stuff in it! My outfit is not complete without my bag. And anyway, which woman walks around without her bag?

So of course, I ignored my father and still toted my bag everywhere (and still do actually lol). But the difference between now and before is that now after reading that guys article, I finally admit to the truth in my fathers words. Weird isn't it? How you refuse to listen to something coming from one person, but when it comes from another, you have no problem taking it.

So yes, Handbags are more than likely an unnecessary thing which is more of a 'liability' than a benefit and more of a fashion 'must' than a necessity. I'm not saying this is the case of all, but it's the case more often than not.

But still.............how to live without the handbag? People just never learn until something bad happens to them ( quoting my dad....)