What do you keep in your bag?

As a working messenger for Cricket Courier Cooperative in downtown San Francisco people have often asked me what i carry in my bag besides our clients packages;

• The bag itself is a prototype 187 sling in Kelly green
• Trash bags to wrap packages to big to go in my bag when its raining.
• Snacks
• North Face goretex jacket in red
• Arm warmers and gloves
• Current Bike magazine
• Spoon
• Tape measure
• Pens
• Spare Earring
• Spare lock key on carabiner
• Water bottle
• Radio and phone
• Glasses case (for when the sun goes away)
• Custom Cross street made by (now) New York messenger Fox
• Manifest clipboard
• Paperwork in plastic bag
• Tools a spare tube and a patch kit
• Front Knog light (someone stole the back one)
• Last but not least is one of my lovely wife’s dreadlocks for luck

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