What's in your pocket?

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What's in your pocket?
        　　    "No, don't ask me. You really don't want to know," said a young man, as I approached him to ask what was in his pockets. We
        　　    are no longer properly dressed without filling our pockets, but what exactly do we keep in them? Oyster cards, wallets,
        　　    mobile phones, pens, lip balm and car keys, judging by the people I spoke to at London's St Pancras station today. What
        　　    practical people!
        　　    Jason, 28, turned his pockets inside out to reveal a condom and toothpaste. One wonders what he got up to last night ...
        　　    Claire, talking on her mobile, did not appreciate the interruption but quickly took out a tampon from her coat pocket,
        　　    adding: "You just never know".
        　　    Careful preparation for the day ahead is, apparently, very popular when packing pockets. Jim, 89, stuffed his with mints
        　　    because he might meet "some nice ladies" today. Some people didn't require a quick rummage to see what was in theirs. A
        　　    middle-aged woman recalled that she was carrying spectacles and a redundant tube ticket. An Oxford professor "imagined" he
        　　    would have a wallet and pen, but didn't bother to check.
        　　    Others were not so backward. "Let me see ... I have two tube maps and 72p - we are in a recession, after all," said Lizzy,
        　　    unemployed. Riazat said he had a comb and a mini bottle of Listerine. An excited group of school girls ran up to me and
        　　    revealed lipgloss, lipstick and chewing gum.
        　　    While the dictionary defines a pocket as "forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles", some people are
        　　    oblivious to size. Ciaran said he had a dagger and dragon-killing potion in his back pockets, but I didn't wait around for
        　　    him to confirm this. A community support officer, taking his job very seriously, showed me a selection of blank tickets "in
        　　    case we have to give a penalty", a spare battery for his radio, and a mobile phone "in case my radio goes down". Our trust in
        　　    the police has been restored.
        　　    As Nicky unearthed crumpled old receipts, a smartly dressed woman took a piece of paper out of her coat pocket and held up
        　　    her shopping list to me: 100W lightbulb, cucumber, tarragon. She said she couldn't find a bulb anywhere.
        　　    I noticed a man sitting with his luggage in the corner. He told me he had his passport, visa, and parents' mobile phone
        　　    number and photograph in his two front pockets. He arrived in Britain from Saudi Arabia this morning.
            
            

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        　　    The odd person was carrying nothing in their pockets. "I'd lose everything or it would be stolen," said Mark, running down
        　　    the escalator. Perhaps a wise decision, considering the speed he was running.
        　　    I guess it's my turn. In my front left pocket I have some ID and a voice recorder, and in my right blazer pocket a black pen
        　　    and 87p. The items paint a pretty accurate picture of me: "hard-up journalist". So what's in yours? And what, if anything, do
        　　    you think it says about you?
        　　    In case you were wondering, the first young man I spoke to had a pair of soiled boxer shorts in his back pocket. He was
        　　    right: I didn't want to know.