I just hate when they’re teeny tiny back packs on wheels, being pulled by full grown, capable adults on busy sidewalks. Unless they’re filled with concrete, it should be on your back and out of tripping range.
I agree completely and 100%! I’d say that they’re okay for little kids… but if you’re too old to be dragging a My Little Pony backpack on the sidewalk behind you, then man up and wear it on your back!
A return of sorts to a post from the past asking for pictures like this for your side-blog…is it possible that you are trying to bring that blog back from the dead with this little teaser?
You oughtta just go up behind it and kick it…and then apologize saying you didn’t see it way down there. That might help with some of your frustrations.
I dunno Sam, when I carry a backpack to the airport it has books, yarn for knitting, maybe a change of clothes for me or a kiddo. When I carry a backpack to school it has 500 pieces of paper, folders, and probably 3-5 books in it, some of which are those big heavy ones. In other words, everything I should be working on instead of reading Craig’s blog (my “portable conscience” as a friend once put it). That sucker is heavy! So someone rolling it instead of carrying it isn’t really on my radar.
Then again, I’ve never had to walk behind one and trip on it. That could change my views in an instant.
I had a side blog for about a month. It was going to be user-submitted material where people would e-mail me camera phone pictures of real life situations where someone else’s laziness made their lives more annoying. It was called “Pick Up Your Bag” because it was situations like the one shown here that inspired it. No one ever submitted anything so I shut it down. You can see my post about it here:
Many of my colleagues use such devices for all the papers, lunch-stuff and laptops the schlepp to and from the office. It’s such a burden to carry that stuff 50 yards or less from their car to their desk. But after spending decades behind a desk many people have back-issues…
Maybe you should buy a supply of those orange safety flags for the backs of bicycles and hand them out to those poor nerds so they don’t get sued by someone tripping over their man-bags. But be careful with those flags! My husband lost a tooth to one as a child. Sch-wo-ong-ong-ong right into his mouth, poor kid.
Somehow, having a backpack with wheels suddenly gives folk the moral authority to ride up (or DOWN!) a single floor on an elevator. After all, we wouldn’t expect them to wheel their backpack down a flight of stairs, now would we?
(Of course, they probably have a medical condition and a doctor’s note saying they need to always ride elevators, and the one time I give in to that tiny little temptation and say something oh-so-funny-and-devastatingly-clever , it’ll turn out that the local tv channel did a heart-tugging expose on their horrid fork-lift accident and their months of PT and their brave return to the workplace in the face of long odds, and I’m the only one on the lift who missed it, and suddenly I’m revealed as the heartless lout that I truly am.)
I don’t like rolly bags it seems so old. Now if you are old (60+) or have heavy equipment (nursing students) fine, but please don’t have a rolly back. Although I shouldn’t talk since I had one for 5th and 6th grade.
Hmmm…. I’m not that annoyed by it, but when you mention that they use it on crowded streets, yeah, I can see how that’s annoying.
And besides from being annoying, they’re aren’t really the ‘cool thing’ to have anymore!
If that guy has a teenage daughter, she’s probably embarrassed!
I just have to say in defense of these backpacks- I go to law school- and on the days I have 3 classes that requires carrying my laptop and 3 books that are larger than bibles (and hardcover.)
You try carrying that around all day and you’ll be wishing you had wheels by noon!
My mother uses one of these terrible things, I hate them as well, and I see the looks she gets, but people don’t realize that my mother suffers from lobster claw disease. This is a disease where her hands are slowly beginning to function like lobster claws and she is unable to hold on to anything for a lengthy period of time. Therefore, the roller back pack is the best option for her…please be patient when you see someone like this, they could be afflicted with the lobster claw disease like my poor mother.
Nicky, if he has a teenage daughter just the fact that he breathes and blinks embarrasses her. Trust me on that one. LOL But my daughter would kill me if I had one of those.
I can think of something worse . . . there’s a lady that works downstairs from that has this collapsible milk crate roly poly thing, and I SWEAR she’s run over me like 5 times with that darned thing.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Whatchoo got against rollie backpacks? Chiropractors everywhere are quite happy! Oh, wait.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Yep, lame. I’m cool, I have a backpack, oh wait, I’m too weak to carry it on my BACK, I need wheels.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I just hate when they’re teeny tiny back packs on wheels, being pulled by full grown, capable adults on busy sidewalks. Unless they’re filled with concrete, it should be on your back and out of tripping range.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I agree completely and 100%! I’d say that they’re okay for little kids… but if you’re too old to be dragging a My Little Pony backpack on the sidewalk behind you, then man up and wear it on your back!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:44 am
A return of sorts to a post from the past asking for pictures like this for your side-blog…is it possible that you are trying to bring that blog back from the dead with this little teaser?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Oh. I totally thought that was you.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:25 am
couldn’t agree more! Your going to school, not to the airport!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:35 am
You oughtta just go up behind it and kick it…and then apologize saying you didn’t see it way down there. That might help with some of your frustrations.
HUGS…
September 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I dunno Sam, when I carry a backpack to the airport it has books, yarn for knitting, maybe a change of clothes for me or a kiddo. When I carry a backpack to school it has 500 pieces of paper, folders, and probably 3-5 books in it, some of which are those big heavy ones. In other words, everything I should be working on instead of reading Craig’s blog (my “portable conscience” as a friend once put it). That sucker is heavy! So someone rolling it instead of carrying it isn’t really on my radar.
Then again, I’ve never had to walk behind one and trip on it. That could change my views in an instant.
Hayden, Craig had a side blog????
September 4th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I had a side blog for about a month. It was going to be user-submitted material where people would e-mail me camera phone pictures of real life situations where someone else’s laziness made their lives more annoying. It was called “Pick Up Your Bag” because it was situations like the one shown here that inspired it. No one ever submitted anything so I shut it down. You can see my post about it here:
http://puntabulous.com/2007/06/08/puntabulous-experimentation/
September 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Oh lord, too funny.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Many of my colleagues use such devices for all the papers, lunch-stuff and laptops the schlepp to and from the office. It’s such a burden to carry that stuff 50 yards or less from their car to their desk. But after spending decades behind a desk many people have back-issues…
September 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I would try to look at the positive. At least he’s not wearing white shoes after Labor Day.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Be ware saying anything in real life. I saw someone pick theirs up by the handle and pack-slap someone. It’s total revenge of the nerds.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Maybe you should buy a supply of those orange safety flags for the backs of bicycles and hand them out to those poor nerds so they don’t get sued by someone tripping over their man-bags. But be careful with those flags! My husband lost a tooth to one as a child. Sch-wo-ong-ong-ong right into his mouth, poor kid.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
“Sch-wo-ong-ong-ong” is my new favorite word.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Elevators are where I notice them.
Somehow, having a backpack with wheels suddenly gives folk the moral authority to ride up (or DOWN!) a single floor on an elevator. After all, we wouldn’t expect them to wheel their backpack down a flight of stairs, now would we?
(Of course, they probably have a medical condition and a doctor’s note saying they need to always ride elevators, and the one time I give in to that tiny little temptation and say something oh-so-funny-and-devastatingly-clever , it’ll turn out that the local tv channel did a heart-tugging expose on their horrid fork-lift accident and their months of PT and their brave return to the workplace in the face of long odds, and I’m the only one on the lift who missed it, and suddenly I’m revealed as the heartless lout that I truly am.)
September 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I don’t like rolly bags it seems so old. Now if you are old (60+) or have heavy equipment (nursing students) fine, but please don’t have a rolly back. Although I shouldn’t talk since I had one for 5th and 6th grade.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Yeah! I hate him too!
Now remind me why again?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hmmm…. I’m not that annoyed by it, but when you mention that they use it on crowded streets, yeah, I can see how that’s annoying.
And besides from being annoying, they’re aren’t really the ‘cool thing’ to have anymore!
If that guy has a teenage daughter, she’s probably embarrassed!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
“they’re aren’t”… lol.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I just have to say in defense of these backpacks- I go to law school- and on the days I have 3 classes that requires carrying my laptop and 3 books that are larger than bibles (and hardcover.)
You try carrying that around all day and you’ll be wishing you had wheels by noon!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
My mother uses one of these terrible things, I hate them as well, and I see the looks she gets, but people don’t realize that my mother suffers from lobster claw disease. This is a disease where her hands are slowly beginning to function like lobster claws and she is unable to hold on to anything for a lengthy period of time. Therefore, the roller back pack is the best option for her…please be patient when you see someone like this, they could be afflicted with the lobster claw disease like my poor mother.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Nicky, if he has a teenage daughter just the fact that he breathes and blinks embarrasses her. Trust me on that one. LOL But my daughter would kill me if I had one of those.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Here here.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I can think of something worse . . . there’s a lady that works downstairs from that has this collapsible milk crate roly poly thing, and I SWEAR she’s run over me like 5 times with that darned thing.