This My Friend is a Man Bag

This was originally posted at Executive Lunch www.execlunch.blogspot.com last October 16, 2010.

I am a bag man.  No, not the crime bag man, but friends who know me since way back knows that I always carry a bag at one point or another.  I carried either a belt bag, a clutch bag, a laptop bag, a portfolio bag or a backpack.  For the past few months I have been carrying a soft bag to protect my cellphones.  But I have been putting too much other stuff on this soft bag that made me realize that I need to bring a bigger bag again.   Good thing my wife gave me as a gift, this leather postman's bag from Wade shoes.  And I say this is one perfect man bag for me (*self high five*).  Cool enough to bring and yet professional looking.   (Thanks again honey, love you a million!)

 As you can see it's made of fine leather with magnetic snaps to fasten.  Quite roomy with lots of compartments to put in everything you need to bring along.  It has a strap to carry it like a shoulder bag or wrap around like a body bag.  It's leather so it's water proof, good for the monsoon season.  Case in point, today after having a drink at Cable Car it was raining hard.  No worries, I just placed the bag over my head and it protected me and all the things inside the bag from the rain (don't want to get my unfinished "The Time Traveler's Wife" "The Bro Code" wet now, wouldn't I?)  It's also lightweight so it doesn't strain my shoulder at all.  I remember carrying a Targus laptop bag before where the bag is heavier than the laptop itself!  I had daily back and neck problems because of that.

We bought the smaller version so that it would not be mistaken as a laptop bag.  But today I over estimated the capacity of the bag as a big bowl of Japanese Ramen wasn't able to fit inside it (don't worry it's uncooked.)  So here's a cool tip care of Mrs Executive Lunch, bring a fold-able bag put it inside the postman's bag.  You'll never know when you would be faced with another big bowl of Ramen situation in the future.