Friday, March 6, 2009

Use a rolling bag

This is not the time or the place to go on a rant about rolling bags. I happen to not like them. Chances are if you are under 60, not in a wheelchair and can't lift what you are carrying, you are taking too much stuff with you. This article sums it up pretty well.

I will stipulate that rolling bags have their purposes when traveling by aeroplane. (Even though that's horseshit.) But there is no justification for rolling them around the subway. If you want to roll them through airports, fine. But as long as you're in the system, pretend it doesn't have wheels.

It's just too crowded. You can't carry it the 10 feet from your seat to the platform? It has to be rolled off? Really? If you can't muster the energy to lift instead of rolling, you don't deserve to be going on vacation. And if you are going on a business trip, I can't imagine your boss is too pleased with your productivity.

Yet people still do this. They don't account for the bag rolling behind them. They look straight ahead without a care in the world. Think of those idiot drivers who slap a trailer with some obnoxious boat on their car despite not knowing how to drive with it. They almost kill you when changing lanes. It happened to my parents once and the left side of their car looked like the Ford Explorers in Jurassic Park (sans lamb leg.) Obviously the bags are a less dangerous hazard, but they still hurt when you run over my foot.

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