The Bobby Pin

A little-known fact about me is that in high school, I used to keep a bobby pin in my wallet.  It was clipped on the dollar-bill divider right in the crease of the wallet.  Hardly noticeable unless you were looking for it.  This might seem like an odd thing to have in a man's wallet.  I had a marine-cut haircut all during high school, so it obviously wasn't there for the express purpose that it was made...to hold my hair back.  So, why you might ask did I keep a bobby pin in my wallet? 

Well, to be used as a lock pick, of course, in the event (or eventuality I believed in high school) that I would be locked up somewhere and need to pick the lock to get out.  I was so paranoid that this was bound to happen to me at some point that I wanted to be ready.  So, I carried that stupid bobby around for four years, only to be disappointed that I never had a chance to use it.  Some guys carry business cards, some carry pictures of their girlfriend, some carry condoms...I carried a lock pick.  And that explains a lot about me in high school.