Across from me on the subway was an older woman with a see-through tote bag. I remembered when those bags were all the rage, in the mid- to late-nineties. Girls walking around with see-through backpacks--tampons, beepers and hair pins visible to the world. This woman, hair dyed red, eyebrows dyed to match looked to be in her low seventies and was obviously a very messy person. She had coins loose at the bottom of the bag, a few chocolate eggs jammed underneath crumpled up envelopes. There was a full-size bottle of contact lens solution, some tissues, some more paper. Everything thrown in there. She was rummaging around in the bag looking for something and I leaned over to Jenya and said "I don't think you should have a see-through bag unless you're a tidy person." I watched the woman dig around in her bag some more and said said "She should just hold the bag up and look at it from the outside." Three minutes later she found what she was looking for, a wet-nap. She ripped open the package and through the wrapper into her bag. She used the wet-nap to wipe off her hands, taking care to get underneath her inch-long pale pink fake nails. She then used the wet-nap to wipe the inside of her clear bag. And dropped the used wet-nap into her bag.