Here’s what I do know: On Saturday night, I watched an episode of Stargate Atlantis<\/span> on the Zen–in bed, before I went to sleep. On Sunday morning, I took the Zen and the earphones from the nightstand and put them in my jacket. Then D and went out to breakfast and a movie. When I went to look for the Zen on Sunday night, it wasn’t in my jacket.<\/p>\n The jacket in question was a SCOTTEVEST<\/a> (“SeV”) garment. I’ve owned three different SeV jackets and loved all of them–as a geek, I love to carry around a lot of gadgets. (Even in high school, I would go everywhere with a backpack and<\/span> a messenger bag.) This jacket has nearly 30 pockets and storage compartments, and all but three of those are zippered, velcroed, or otherwise secured shut: the two pen holder slots, and this one:<\/span><\/p>\n Yeah. Guess where I had put the now-missing items? That’s right, in the only pocket without<\/span> some kind of closure. ’cause I’m smart. S-M-R-T.<\/p>\n To be fair to myself, I’ve been wearing this jacket since last summer, and I had carried stuff in that pocket throughout five months of Travels With Our Cats<\/a>. It’s an interior pouch, and nothing has ever fallen out before. I still don’t know for sure that’s what happened, but it seems the most likely of all the unlikely scenarios I’ve imagined.<\/p>\n I won’t be using that pocket anymore. And if you have one of these jackets, you shouldn’t, either.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/thepocket.jpg\")
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