Backpack wearing eejits

[Story]

No worries - I played ice hockey as a kid/young adult. I was a goaltender, but "Battling" Billy Smith was my hero...

Then may the Spirit of the Broad Street Bullies walk with you into the Tube, my man.

 

[Paisley]

I wear a backpack. What do I carry in it? An umbrella, a book, my lunch, wallet, keys and a few toiletries. Why don't I carry my stuff in a purse? For one thing, it won't fit. For another thing, I used to have two pinched nerves in my spine. I don't care to have a relapse from putting a lot of weight on one shoulder.

When it's crowded on the bus, I put the backpack in my lap. When I'm on the elevator, I look behind me before backing up. I've never knocked anyone down.

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I wear a backpack. What do I carry in it? An umbrella, a book, my lunch, wallet, keys and a few toiletries. Why don't I carry my stuff in a purse? For one thing, it won't fit. For another thing, I used to have two pinched nerves in my spine. I don't care to have a relapse from putting a lot of weight on one shoulder.

When it's crowded on the bus, I put the backpack in my lap. When I'm on the elevator, I look behind me before backing up. I've never knocked anyone down.

I think a back pack is an easy way to carry a lot of things. Much better than carrying a bag on one shoulder that can make you fall over. I just wish more people were cautious, like you Paisley, when they wear them in crowded places. You have the courtesy that many others lack.

 

[Feraud]

I am sure it is the lack of courtesy that garners the complaint, not the backpack itself.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I either use a leather satchel with a strap or a messenger bag (depending on how much I have to carry). It's very easy to swing it to the front for the elevator and the bus (even sitting), and then back to the rear for walking. I never really have to take it off while en route.

 

[Story]

I am sure it is the lack of courtesy that garners the complaint, not the backpack itself.

Exactly so. I've switched backpacks around to my front, parachute style, so as to navigate through crowds without being a nuisance. All it takes is basic manners, and if those are forgotten, a reminder.

 

[Viola]

As a short person, I particular love the men who have smacked me full in the face with a backpack and then said, "oh." Not sorry, "oh."

Yes, oh indeed. Also, owwww.

Also great, after your head has been snapped back and there's a mark on your face, "did I hit you?" Well, it was either you or a poltergeist, and the lights haven't flickered. :rage:

I also carry my bag or pack down and tight against me. Polite and theft protection at once.

I joke that there must be ninja backpacks that crawl about the station ceiling, looking for people to cling to like leeches, weightless on their backs as none of these clowns seem to know that their pack is there, affecting their overall size and turning circle.

 

[Paisley]

If I am ever back East with a backpack, I must remember to be even more careful. I understand that those of us out West stand farther apart from each other than do people in other parts of the country. This must be how I have managed to wear a backpack in what I call "crowded areas" without doing anything worse than bumping someone slightly.

 

[magneto]

I think one of the Pub. Trans. systems actually had ads showing some poor fellow getting shoved in the face with another's ungainly backpack, urging people to remove them on crowded buses...but that worked about as well as the equally fruitless suggestions to make Mom-zillas fold up their elephantine Schwartzenegger-size baby stroller on the bus...
Being short, I get hit in the face/head with packs and messenger bags all the time! (I only carry handheld bags nowadays after having had a thief worm his/her hand into a shoulder-borne bag)

 

[Sefton]

I do not mind what anyone else chooses to carry. They can walk around with a parrot on their shoulder for all I care!

...the first time you get bludgeoned with a budgie you'll care.....

 

[Story]

...the first time you get bludgeoned with a budgie you'll care.....

There's nothing more dangerous than a man armed with a parrot pining for the fjords.

 

[carebear]

There's nothing more dangerous than a man armed with a parrot pining for the fjords.

What about an assailant lunging at you with a passion fruit, or a homicidal maniac with a bunch of loganberries?

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Or a poin-ted stick?

 

[RedPop4]

I can only get all my stuff into a backpack. I had a fairly nice messenger bag, however it ripped at the seam, plus with the stuff I carry, it was bulging and ugly looking. So I went back to the backpack. Got a small leather bag with all my keys in it, bottle of tylenol, a thick book ,a hard-back calendar, my lunch, a few tubed cigars, other medicaments as necessary.

That's a lot of stuff, and it fits well in there. I aim to be careful when in public with it, though.

 

[Feraud]

Since you mention it..

...the first time you get bludgeoned with a budgie you'll care.....[/COLOR]

The punchline I excluded from my post was..Anyone can walk around with a parrot on their shoulder for all I care. As long as their bird keeps their "business" to themself! lol

 

[Twitch]

Thankfully we in Southern California are immune to adults in backpacks. One less goffyassed thing to deal with:eusa_clap