Do people run around with these things at your school? What do you think of them?

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

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There's this one girl that has one, and it's SO annoying. As if she didn't take enough of the limited hall space as is, she has to take up extra room dragging her crap behind her? I will kill that suitcase.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

I go to art school, so naturally we have a lot of junk to carry around with us.. books, paint, brushes, pencils, paper, etc etc. We have lockers to hold all of our crap. The chick with the locker above mine (one of two lockers filled right up) has one of those pully suitcase things.. not just a tiny one mind you, but a large one. On top of that she has a duffelbag and a backpack. All full up to the brim. I realize art students have a lot of stuff to lug around but holy hell, this girl has so much freakin stuff.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

I am laughing...hard.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I just like the title of this thread..*laugh*

I've seen people at the mall with these "wheelie suitcases" but no, not at school.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

The kids on my street--like, third-graders--have them. It's a great answer for people with bad backs... or people who are just too damn lazy to carry a bookbag...

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

My boyfriend carries his laptop around in one. It's annoying as hell, it's like the wheelie bag is his little pet and there's no room for me!

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

When I went to art school everyone had them because they were just big enough to fit all the pads of papers and shit we needed, which were all too large to fit in normal backpacks (the school gave out these tote bags, which some people used, but really they were just a pain in the ass.)

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Two people at my school carry/wheel around those huge suitcase things. I'm sorry, but I know for a FACT that my school does NOT give out THAT much work, you don't need many supplies, and, half the time, you won't even have a freakin book for your class because there isn't enough for each class to have one, so REALLY, what is the POINT other than to annoy me and many others. It sounds horrible, but you really do just look dumb. I mean, I could understand if there was actually a point to it, or if there was a large amount of space in the hallways - but NO, there isn't. Ugh. Pet peeves.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I only see foreign students using "wheelie suitcases thingies" at my school, oddly enough. Everybody else has North Face backpacks. You know, for those long, arduous treks to your marketing class.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Oh yes, North Face. Jansport is right up there too. Eastpak maybe. But haha..north face! Along with the Columbia jackets (ok so I have one..sue me)

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I haven't seen any big suitcase-type things, but I have seen a lot of those backpacks on wheels...those are kind of annoying too, because I'm a person who walks really quickly, and it's frustrating to me to have to wait for someone to pull a wheely thing along behind them.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

I know of one person that has a weelie suitcase. And they are so annoying because they are always in people's way and then the halls are held up. Plus it's always the nerdy kids and people are constantly picking on them for bringing a suitcase to school. But what's wrong with backpacks? I live out of mine and I have no need at all for a wheelie suitcase-- not even when I'm traveling and they are considered okay.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

Jansport is THE backpack for the eastern part of Virginia.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

i think jansport is an american thing, because it's the backpack of choice for everyone over here too.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

95% of the people in my school have LL Bean back packs, since this is Maine and all, and LL Bean headquarters is only an hour or so away from here. I have yet to see someone with a wheely suitcase, thank goodness. They sound like a pain.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

North Face is the way to go for me. They're made wonderfully and the straps don't break, like my Jansport one did a few years back.

The wheelie suitcases are interesting. Many foreign students at my school use them as well, but they never seemed to annoy me, although I can see how they might to other people.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

Im gunna go out n git me onea those wheelie things. Aww yeah.

I think it would be more of a pain to drag one of those around..especially since sometimes it's hard enough to just walk around campus..must less pulling a wheelie suitcase.

This always cracks me up..

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

Almost everyone at my school are pimpin' their LL Bean backpacks but there were all theses complaints because we all have developed back problems from having to carry too many books to far or something (I kid you not... it hurts like a biotch) and so the school board put up money to the poor souls that have scoliosis to buy them wheelie backpacks. So for about a month everyone had the freakin' suitcases but then we all realized that you can't go upstairs very well so we're just going to endure our back pains.

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

Hmm. I go to school in a city, and I've never seen somebody actually carrying a wheelie suitcase, or a wheelie bookbag.

On the bookbag front, most people sport the usual - Eastpak and Jansport being the top two.. but most people (over 50%, I think) use shoulder bags - mostly Gap, or Abercrombie (what on earth makes anyone think that a company that manufactures clothing would make a good, comfortable and sturdy bookbag? it boggles the mind..). I for one go for the no-name Luna shoulder bag, or the $8 glorified purse with a rainbow and a puffy gold star. It's cute.

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2001

Hm. I've got a cheapass backpack. I don't have this need to go get an expensive one. I only have to carry two books at most and a smattering of papers and folders, so it's like, whatever.

There's one girl who had one of those rolly backpacks. Not to mention a cheapass, Dollar-store rolly backpack. Scrubby, I say.

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2001

We had an exchange student at my high school a few years ago who had this backpack that really tripped me out. The thing (which was huge) went around your shoulders like normal, but then had a belt-type thing you could strap around your waist. I guess it was to help your back or something, but the kid looked like a freaking nerd... well, he was a nerd anyway, but the backpack sure didn't help matters anyway.

Question... "backpack" or "bookbag"?

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2001

How interesting ... in my high school, it was the cool clique that had those waist-strap backpacks (and they do look pretty good). They're like mountaineering backpacks almost, but if you were cool, yours was full of cheerleading or football gear, or booze. Even in university, there seems to be a Canadian trend of the bigger the better in backpacks ... the more stuff you got, the more places you're going, I guess.

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2001

..definitely backpack

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001