I am walking down the street this morning…

 …hauling my cup of coffee as usual, and another guy walks across from the other side of the street to speak to me. He's in his late 20s maybe, he's wearing jeans, a baseball jacket and hat, and carrying a suitably-battered brown leather case, and says to me thusly:

"Excuse me, I'm going to an interview and I need to know, does this look like a purse?"

I give it a good gaze and say to him, "No, it looks to me like a briefcase."

"Oh thanks," he says, visibly relieved, "I needed to hear that." And went on his way.

I hope he got the job, or whatever it was he was interviewing for.

It did look like a briefcase, mostly.