Rolling Luggage Should be Banned
From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
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On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
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I agree, you nearly trip over these things all the time in downtown Toronto, during rush hour, people are wheeling them along and you don't see them until you're on top of them! Ug.0
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But if the kids are using rolling backpacks to PREVENT the future back issues they'll possibly develop.... hmm?
I carried books on my back too and my back was fine. Until HS. I still visit a chiropractor weekly to help.0 -
They're actually finding that kids are developing back problems due to carrying so much weight in their backpacks. I remember in HS my back hurt like hell because the books are so heavy now
Of course, they make ergonomical backpacks now, but they're pricey.0 -
LOL, I definitely think it looks ridiculous when a 7 year old kid is dragging their rolling backpack.0
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Is this an American thing? In the UK, I've never seen people with rolling luggage other than at the airport and at train stations. Students use backpacks or shoulder bags for their books. I used a shoulder bag years ago when I was a student, and I have problems with my left shoulder now.0
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Eh. That's why you carry some in your arms and some on your back. Big deal.0
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Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
So someone with back problems should have to carry around a doctor's note?0 -
From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
Yeah! And let's get rid of strollers while we're at it. Friggin lazy people not carrying around their own babies. Grocery carts, too. I mean, come on.0 -
LOL, I definitely think it looks ridiculous when a 7 year old kid is dragging their rolling backpack.
Ok, looks aside (yes I agree, it's ridiculous), how about the functionality. If parents would pay attention to their kids and adjust the backpacks correctly to their kids (like the rest of our parents did), we wouldn't even have that issue. My back is just fine, and I had books for all of my classes, not just e-books and laptops like some of these kids have these days. Now that is ridiculous!!0 -
You would think in this day and age with technology the need to carry books home would be extinct.0
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Wait, kids are carrying books around? For school? :noway:
I agree agree about the adult business people and hipsters who are too lazy to carry their MacBookPro.0 -
I swear my back pack weighed 50 lbs in highschool when I had to take home 3 different sets of binders and 5 different text books. I remember the straps sawing into my shoulders quite painfully. I have lower back, neck and shoulder issues in my adult life and though Im sure they were not caused completely by my back pack, if my son can avoid these issues I'll gladly get him a rolling bookbag. Whether or not you think he looks ridiculous...0
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Kids still have to carry around tons of books? You would think in this day and age that could offer e-books and/or a cheap e-reader as an alternative. Or maybe they do - I don't have offspring so I don't know.0
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My daughter fractured her spine 2 years ago. She was 9 years old. So she is one of those medical exceptions. And she still has to carry that 30+ lb. bookbag up 3 floors several times a day.0
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Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
So someone with back problems should have to carry around a doctor's note?
Yes, I am proposing that there be federal guidelines regulating the use of rolling luggage/backpacks. And police must enforce this new law and medical exceptions will be given through a licensing board.
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No, I mean common sense.
And the stroller/grocery cart comment is also silly.0 -
But if the kids are using rolling backpacks to PREVENT the future back issues they'll possibly develop.... hmm?
I carried books on my back too and my back was fine. Until HS. I still visit a chiropractor weekly to help.
^^I work for a chiropractor that hates those things and would love to have them banned. They throw off 1 side of your body, making the otherside over compensate. Those things are BAD for you!0 -
But if the kids are using rolling backpacks to PREVENT the future back issues they'll possibly develop.... hmm?
I carried books on my back too and my back was fine. Until HS. I still visit a chiropractor weekly to help.
^^I work for a chiropractor that hates those things and would love to have them banned. They throw off 1 side of your body, making the otherside over compensate. Those things are BAD for you!
Interesting! Here's what the American Chiropractic Association has to say about it: http://www.acatoday.org/content_css.cfm?CID=65
I think the rolling backpacks thing is just another example of parental overprotectiveness.0 -
From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
is this your thesis topic?0 -
From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
What got your panties in a wad?0 -
My back is just fine, and I had books for all of my classes, not just e-books and laptops like some of these kids have these days. Now that is ridiculous!!
Why is it ridiculous? Having just completed a degree course where I used e-books (and electronic journal articles - I read hundreds of them on my Kindle) and a laptop, I've found it to be a much more organised, efficient and effective way of studying. So I'm curious why it would be considered ridiculous.0 -
im glad trivial things like this dont bother me.0
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What a horrible attitude.From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
If this how you react to such a minor irritation that you come across on a day to day basis, I dread to think how you'd fall apart if anything genuinely bad happened to you.
Be thankful that your life is marred solely by such triviality.0 -
first world problems... LOL
and if anyone is stupid enough to leave their notebook/luggage thing where I accidentally trip into it.... it will be moved immediately, and probably not in a friendly manner.0 -
Isn't a rant on a forum by definition trivial?
But thanks for all the insults, MFP friends.0 -
currently healing from a back injury that was caused by my catalog bag that gets dragged on my roller bag and no, we are not allowed to substitute with tablets0
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From all public places besides airports.
On crowded city streets they can trip people with those things. If you are too lazy to carry around your 10 pound laptop, than don't bring it.
I hate seeing kids walk around the neighborhood with these things. I carried my many books on my back , and I was 80 pounds soaking wet in middle school.
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
/end rant.
Yeah! And let's get rid of strollers while we're at it. Friggin lazy people not carrying around their own babies. Grocery carts, too. I mean, come on.
Don't forget cars, and bikes... people should be able to walk...0 -
Isn't a rant on a forum by definition trivial?
But thanks for all the insults, MFP friends.
its not that you brought it up here its that something so trivial bothers you at all.
maybe you just need to be more aware?0 -
Isn't a rant on a forum by definition trivial?
But thanks for all the insults, MFP friends.
I think this is the most valid point in this entire thread.
On the topic: to me, any teenager who's back would be injured by carrying 50 pounds on a nearly constant basis has more problems than the backpack. Fifty pounds is only slightly more than an empty barbell....0 -
having lived in both NYC and the bay area i've definitely seen people fall down steps and escalators because in big crowd of people they can't see that the person walking across their path has rolling luggage behind them. luckily i'm always hyper-aware (obsessively so) of my surroundings and have been able to avoid some really bad accidents of my own
i dont have a problem with rolling luggage, i just have a problem with people who walk as if they dont have rolling luggage . i think driving protocol should be in place, so like if you're walking and no you;re going to have to take a right turn, then stay closest to the right side as possible before the turn. dont start in the far left and then sharply make a right turn :laugh: that's how every single horrific rolling luggage meets pedestrian accident starts and how i've seen more than a few rolling luggage people get punched in the face or at the very least their luggage kicked sharply down some steps. like i said i lived in NYC. most people dont abide by others walking like they arent sharing the space with millions of other people
but i wonder why these people are everyday taking all this work home with them. maybe they need to stop looking at porn and checking facebook at work
anyway i think it;s similar to the people who walk and text. it's not an issue until they arent paying attention to their surroundings.0 -
Exceptions of course for those with medical issues.
So someone with back problems should have to carry around a doctor's note?
Yes, I am proposing that there be federal guidelines regulating the use of rolling luggage/backpacks. And police must enforce this new law and medical exceptions will be given through a licensing board.
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No, I mean common sense.
And the stroller/grocery cart comment is also silly.
Really? I'd love to ban pushchairs where I live, stupid mothers used to ram me in the back of the legs with those on a daily basis when I walked to work. Not like they could possibly go around me since they insisted on all walking along in rows with the pushchairs so nobody could get past in either direction and they didn't want to break up their lines to go around people. :grumble:
Only happens here though, I have never been deliberately hit with a pushchair until I moved here!0
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