An Open Letter To People With Backpacks On Wheels.

Mar 24, 2009 | No Comments | @andrewmarcec

(No this is not a child wearing the backpack…and yes that is a backpack, not a child)

Dear Wheely backpack users,

What is wrong with you that causes you to need one of these contraptions?  I’m starting to think you are just lazy.  Every morning I watch you wheel your bag up to the yellow line at the train depot, then click the long handle all the way down and pick up the whole bag like a normal person would to walk the steps onto the train.  Then you set it back down and pull out the long handle again.

What do you have in those bags that is so heavy?  I walk eight blocks to and from work everyday, some days I do in fact bring my laptop and I am perfectly capable of handling that load.  I’m sure there are some people out there who legitimatly need these bags because of actual medical problems like scoliosis or morbid obesity, but the younger skinny folk who use them, what is your excuse?  Do you think it is cool?  Do you like dragging this burden behind you?  Do you like the feeling of turning behind you in a panic when a wheel hits a rock and the whole bag shifts left to right like you’re walking in a violent earthquake?

I’ll never understand why you have chose this as your professional way to transport documents to and from work, and I will never respect it unless you have a docotor’s note.  Even then I will question its validity.  I will also never understand why you got the one that is shaped like an animal face.  My advice is that you get a normal bag that people under eighty use and get a little more respect in your life.

Burn in hell,

A normal person

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