OT:"Johnnies"

Actually the glove box was designed to put the drivers gloves in when he or she left the car. Driving gloves with the open back was the "in thing" Then there were glove boxes for ladies to keep their gloves in, in the dressing table drawers.

We call your purses our handbags and your wallets for ladies are our purses. Men carry a wallet. Shirley

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I say to-ma-toe Shirley

My whole family is from the Toledo OH area - some urban and some rural - and I never heard that.

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That one is common in Oz, so it probably comes from England. Then there is the bonnet for the engine bay cover and boot lid for the boot/luggage space.

Never heard it - they were always cruast to me. Didn't hear heels until high school maybe.

Kathy K

Actually, now that I think about it, that *is* a little weird. The "pocket" part I can see, but how in the world did "book" get into it? It's not a book, nor are most of them large enough to carry one!

Celine

Yes, I always think they're taking a book along to read.

Tina

Well ok. You have a point! But I'm still gonna call then pocketbooks!

I take it she rides the bus to work? When I say mine holds everything I really need, that includes the house and car keys!

Celine

Since I got here, I have been dropping her off at work in the mornings so she can sleep for another half hour, and normally she takes the bus home. On Tuesdays, though, she conducts a therapy group for sexual-abuse survivors at the Y, and she needed her wallet so she could get some dinner before the session started.

I'll go back and get her tonight after she is done. Kinda like being a soccer mom :-), and I'm driving the Subaru Forester that goes with the job-description.

There is a Gloria Steinem essay on the theme "Every woman needs a wife". I like giving my beloved a bit of convenience and respite here and there, as long as I can. She works long, hard hours in her two professions. And I don't think she's ever had a relationship with anyone where her needs or the demands on her time really got due consideration before. She says I spoil her. I say I appreciate her.

Deirdre

It's really nice to see the number of good happy relationships here.

Gives me hope :)

Yink, you rule! Thanks!

And thanks everyone else who responded!

LOL I guess not... though my mom is always looking for some kind of claim to be Native, I don't think she'll find it there. (But maybe you should track him down and ask him if he calls bread heels "johnnies".)

Yeah, I think probably one guy in the Midwest called it a Johnny, and he's probably my mom's younger brother.

Heh, we always call them glove boxes. I mean, it's a little box built right into your car, and it's where you keep your driving gloves, right?

Well, OK, I don't keep driving gloves there. I keep ten million irrelevant pieces of paper, junk, dried flowers, receipts, service records, manuals, wet-wipes, old forgotten snacks, broken pens, rocks, pliers, and assorted what-not in there.

The XRFH used to mispronounce words and then brush off correction by saying, "Well, that's how they say it in Louisville." This lasted until I started checking his claims with 2 of my co-workers who had lived in Louisville! After that, he just sulked when someone corrected one of his horrible mispronunciations.

Celine

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comREMOVE (Valerie) :

]OMG, you forgot the most important thing...BEADS! ;-)

in the glove compartment??? no!

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