Took my wife's car to work on Thursday, which I rarely do.

But this isn't about the car.

It's about the key chain.

In addition to the fob and key, there are 10 plastic things hanging off it.

Nobody seems to know what these plastic things are actually called, but you probably know what they are.

They're from stores, and have bar codes, and I hope she's getting discounts for carrying these things around.

Let's see...there's Hallmark, CVS, a local nursery (as in flowers, NOT babies), our car insurance company, a shoe store, Healthtrax, Stop & Shop, Stew Leonard's, Big Y, and Shaw's.

I thought she did the food shopping at just one of the above, but hey, I'm just one of those sloths who opens the refrigerator hoping to see food inside. She does the dirty work.

But I digress.

Also on the key chain: another little thing made of black plastic. I believe it's a Mobil Speedpass, or whatever they call it.

You can barely find the key buried in all the plastic things.

That's a lot of stuff for a guy to carry in his pocket. ("Hey, is that a bulge in your pants or are..." you know the rest.)

Women have pocketbooks to put all those little plastic things (and key) in.

Men just have a pocket.

Sometimes I wish manbags caught on.