Rolling Luggage Should be Banned

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  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
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    im glad trivial things like this dont bother me.
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
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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.
    What a horrible attitude.

    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.
  • MrDude_1
    MrDude_1 Posts: 2,510 Member
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    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.
  • alias1001
    alias1001 Posts: 634 Member
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    Isn't a rant on a forum by definition trivial?

    But thanks for all the insults, MFP friends.
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
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    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 tablets
  • I_wanna_live
    I_wanna_live Posts: 227 Member
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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...
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
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    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?
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
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    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....
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    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.
  • Kirkajuice
    Kirkajuice Posts: 311 Member
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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.

    -.-

    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!
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
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    I agree. I work in downtown Chicago and see lot's of people pulling things that can easily be carried. No big surprise that most of these people are over weight. Given a few people few have some physical challenges but the rest are lazy. And I can't tell you how many times of been tripped or had my toes ran over because people don't watch where they're dragging those things!!!!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    if we cant get them banned, they should at least have to stick a long pole on them with a big orange flag at the top so other people can easily see something else is there.


    oh and my absolute favorite accident is caused by the people who park their bags at the very end of steps or escalators on subway platforms. they may have cleared the steps but they dont check that their bag has.

    i see some crazy stuff on morning and after work commutes
  • BellaBones
    BellaBones Posts: 136
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    I use a rolling bag everyday, and I am far beyond lazy... but try carrying your skates and gear on your back and see how you feel. If you do not like them do not use them, plain and simple. They are made for people who need them , banning them, wow.. sorry I feel this is super silly.
  • quietasariot
    quietasariot Posts: 198 Member
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    Both of my daughters both have rolling backpacks. I had to carry my books on my back too and it hurt like a mofo sometimes - why would I want my kids to suffer, too?
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
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    so there goes again the posters that do not read the conversation. You are really talking about the people that do not OWN their bag. kind of like how people where I live use their cars as personal ego weapons. they use their bags as a weapon to intensify their ego.
  • missytrishy
    missytrishy Posts: 203 Member
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    I think the rolling backpacks thing is just another example of parental overprotectiveness.

    And as a parent you would know right?
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    so there goes again the posters that do not read the conversation. You are really talking about the people that do not OWN their bag. kind of like how people where I live use their cars as personal ego weapons. they use their bags as a weapon to intensify their ego.
    huh? but isnt the OP's point specifically about the people who dont control their bags? why would there be a need for a rant for people who pay attention to where they and their personal luggage are?
  • zombiesama
    zombiesama Posts: 755 Member
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    How can you can you trip over these rolling backpacks?? you must not be paying attention to where you are walking...

    I don't have one, nor would I ever own one.
  • LilPinkNinja
    LilPinkNinja Posts: 68
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    You would think in this day and age with technology the need to carry books home would be extinct.

    This! With the adaptation of ebooks and just simply putting books in PDF format, I think that we are on the way to this.
  • hikeout470
    hikeout470 Posts: 628 Member
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    so there goes again the posters that do not read the conversation. You are really talking about the people that do not OWN their bag. kind of like how people where I live use their cars as personal ego weapons. they use their bags as a weapon to intensify their ego.
    huh? but isnt the OP's point specifically about the people who dont control their bags? why would there be a need for a rant for people who pay attention to where they and their personal luggage are?


    yes, i was just bringing it back to the topic. it is about teaching your kids respect, not whether or not a teenager should be strong enough to lug around 50 pounds.

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