YES! I have to start looking for a new wallet. What a major pain in the ass (in EVERY way) that is. You fellows all know that every 10 years or so we have to bite the bullet and replace that ever present and now so comfortable companion. Of course we have been hearing comments from the female part of our families, "how long you had that wallet?"..... "why don't you buy a new wallet?" ............. "You dropped something out of the bottom of your wallet". We accept those comments as something like a woman giving birth, something the other half of the specie just can't know about.

First the chore of finding the pig-in-a-poke. I have to go to a store and pick out something I have no idea how it is going to work. It's like having to buy a pair of underwear that I won't be able to change for the next ten years. I can only hope that it will be something that soon learns to fit my ass and provides me the support for my valuables. Sure there's a lot of cheap glitz and I will be able to see the pictures through the non grey-yellow photo holder.

The emotional task of having to transfer the treasured archives of things I don't recognize any longer and having to discard all the expired cards, passes and memberships to things that have closed, is very hard.

THEN comes the grueling task of break it in. I KNOW that for the next six months I am going have the sensations of walking around with a six pound stone in my hip pocket. I'll have the sensation of a ten pounder every time I sit down. If all goes well, it will be broke in by the end of the first year. But the end of the second year I won't know it's there again. Right after I've replaced the photo holders the second or third time, I'll start hearing the nagging for another two to three years and be back to starting all over again.

The women have no idea of the traumatic things we guys have to live through.

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