I read this a time or two before I felt compelled to add my 2 cents. I have always thought of womens purses as extremely private and somewhat dangerous. I would never look through a womens purse on my own, and I don't like to when asked to. I just bring the purse and the owner can go through it.
Lord knows what might be in there. Sharp things, smelly things, coloring things, secret things, embarassing things, her boyfriends phone number, plans for after I'm dead, nothing I want to see.
Raising three girls, my wife could pull out an amazing assortment of objects needed by small children and later teenage girls, and young women. I assume she passed on her secret knowledge of bags and purses to them as they seem to have their own amazing assortment of stuff.
My billfold is sacred, my space, not for public viewing, and I extend this same status to a purse. Only in the direst need and with witness's will I go into a womans purse.
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