I've noticed a few kids on campus forgoing the standard backpack in favour of a small suitcase with wheels and an extendable handle - the carry-on luggage kind. Some of the suitcases might be specialized backbacks rather than suitcases per se, but it's the same idea. I guess they feel that their textbooks are too heavy and the strain on their weak little shoulders is more important than the racket the wheels make over the uneven pavement and the traffic jams they cause in tight places. Here's a tip: you don't need to carry all your textbooks everywhere, brainiac.
Posted by tim at January 13, 2004 05:30 PMargh! i've seen far, far too many of those people. hint: you are not a flight attendant.
Posted by: grant on January 13, 2004 08:15 PMindeed. a far worse trend than the one-strapped knapsack that slings across your chest and contains a cell phone pocket on the front.
Posted by: beth on January 14, 2004 05:45 PMI have one of the one-strap-cell-phone-pocket knapsacks. I like it, except for its rather limited carrying capacity. Law textbooks are sort of hefty.
Posted by: evan on January 14, 2004 06:16 PMI should add that even more disturbing trend (perhaps specific to law school) is people with briefcases or attaché cases. Hint: You are not on Law and Order.
Posted by: evan on January 14, 2004 06:18 PMi just saw a poster for a commerce society event called "backpacks to briefcases: a night of etiquette & fashion".
Posted by: grant on January 15, 2004 03:22 PMi think anyone carrying anything at all is a hopeless tool. especially people with stuff in their pockets.
Posted by: michal on January 15, 2004 04:54 PMGrant: I think you should attend this event, if only to inflict a vicious sack-beating on one of the attendees, as an example pour encourager les autres
Posted by: evan on January 15, 2004 05:03 PMaren't they your kind of people, evan? commerce and economics are the same, right?
Posted by: grant on January 15, 2004 05:38 PMActually, lots of economists deserve a vicious sack beating, but for different reasons.
Posted by: evan on January 15, 2004 10:39 PMWe're talking about the same "sack" here, right?
Posted by: warcode on January 17, 2004 08:17 AMI have a breifcase type kind of thing and stuff in my pockets.
Posted by: benf on January 20, 2004 03:20 PMyou have a brief case of the donut-brains, ben. and I'm not sure anyone wants to know about the stuff in your pockets..
Posted by: r. on January 20, 2004 03:25 PMi just saw someone who not only had wheely luggage, but a little kid to pull it around for her.
Posted by: grant on February 10, 2004 10:53 AM