Wait, how are those at all equivalent? Holding a purse costs nothing, buying a drink costs money; the latter seems clearly worse
apparently you might be stuck holding some lady’s purse for like fifteen or twenty minutes if there’s a line at the bar or the bathroom, and it means you can’t decide to go to a different bar or start dancing or go home with someone else or even move to a different part of the bar where she might not find you
it is different from, like, watching someone’s bag at the airport (which is just the nice person thing to do) because at an airport you are probably going to be in the same place for the next hour
or so topher, A Person Who Has Ever Gone To A Bar, reports to me
I’m just confused why a woman would ever need to ask a man to hold her purse except as a shit test
I bring my purse with me to the bathroom? they generally have hooks for it? maybe occasionally it might be helpful if I’m trying to hold a lot of things at once but that’s why purses go over your shoulders, so they don’t occupy your hands while you’re trying to do things with them
but apparently it is enough of a thing to warrant a New York Times trendpiece