So I recently started Couch to 5K and, as the weather quickly got warmer, I went pull out some of my exercise shorts to wear instead of the track pants I’d been wearing.
Turns out none of the shorts I have have pockets! Totally not useful since I need to be able to carry my keys, phone, etc.
So off to Target I went. Headed to the women’s athletic department, and guess what? Not a single pair of shorts had real pockets. Exactly ONE pair had an extremely useless 2×2 “hidden” pocket on the inside that would not have ever fit my phone, much less my phone, keys, mace and whatever else I need to carry.
None of the rest of the shorts had pockets at all. I mean, do people thing we’re kangaroos? We don’t have a natural pouch to carry stuff. I’m not about to wear a fanny pack, thank you.
So I went to the men’s section. Every single pair has pockets. WTF? I grabbed an XS white pair (that went down below my knees, but better than nothing I guess). Then I went to the boy’s section, and again, lo and behold, pockets. I grabbed a blue pair and bought those two and thought I was done with it.
Well yesterday I went to put the blue shorts on so I could go on my run. Guess what – dumb me only checked the first shorts on the rack, which had pockets, but these blue ones didn’t. ARGH. I took them off and threw them back in the bag to return.
I moved on to the white men’s shorts. Yes, these did definitely have pockets……. but they were completely see through. Like you could totally see the Wonder Woman on my underwear through them.
So I went jogging in my track pants again yesterday. On the hunt for women’s shorts with pockets, otherwise I’m making own damn pockets and sewing them into a pair I already have.