Backpacks...WTF?

[General Zod]

You're not alone. I've wondered that myself. When I was a kid, if you showed up to school with a backpack, you could expect to get beaten.

When I was a kid, only the poseurs showed up without backpacks. And then they proceeded to try to bum pencils and paper off of everyone else. Backpacks were ubiquitous.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

When I was in school I carried a hand tooled, zippered, leather binder.
It carried all the implements I needed.

 

[kbaxter60]

These days it stays in the car.

...with the hooker?

 

[studenygreg]

I tried the backpack thing for a little while.
Soon there was everything in the bag except a tire jack and a hooker.
It was just silly. Mags, knives, lights, batteries, pens and note pads, mini tools, forks, spoons, Multitools, medical items, headlight, small towel, small packets f food, water bottle, JFC. It weighed a ton.
Made it thru life with a pocket knife and a wallet. All this extra stuff made my back ache. These days it stays in the car.

This is true. I will just add that another reason I carry a backpack is that I can carry things with me in any vehicle. Also, I don't like leaving valuable things in the car. This may dependant on what someone considers valuable and where you leave your vehicle.

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[studenygreg]

You're not alone. I've wondered that myself. When I was a kid, if you showed up to school with a backpack, you could expect to get beaten.

Dang. Beat up over using a backpack. Tough area I guess

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[studenygreg]

...with the hooker?

Must smell awful in there

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[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

"ubiquitous"

Isn't that the name "The Borg" renamed Captain Picard after they captured and turned him into 'a borg'?

 

[TheDan]

I noticed backpacks had replaced the briefcase in the workplace a few decades ago. I've always thought it weird that people will wear business casual or even suits, and then sling a generic looking sports backpack on. Even so called laptop backpacks just look like a sports bag. I always used a nice leather attache case to carry my laptop and office supplies.

I'm also a fan of carrying the smallest bag I can get away with. Never could figure out why coworkers would carry a large backpack just for their laptop. Even asked people and they didn't have an answer. I like using a backpack when I have a backpack's worth of stuff to carry, but that's not everyday. Phone, wallet, gun, and multitool fit nicely on my person and that's all I need. I have tool bags both in the office and in the car with all the other crap if I really need it.

 

[RoyGBiv]

When I started carrying back in the late '80's, even the small guns were heavy. First carry was a Star Firestar in .40. Good luck finding a concealment holster for it... Carry back then was usually AIWB in a kangaroo or a fanny pack... Leather was too bulky in addition to the heavy gun.

FF to today and I carry a G19 with RDS and TLR in, kydex AIWB that I can conceal under a t-shirt. Progress!

Still... some days require a bag for carry in various environments...
-- Wearing gym clothes.. for example

I like this sling bag for times when I'm not able to carry on-body.. Looks much more contemporary and less granny than a fanny pack.... Never have gotten a second glance about it...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HSZ7HSF/

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

You're not alone. I've wondered that myself. When I was a kid, if you showed up to school with a backpack, you could expect to get beaten.

So you carried your quill and ink bottle in your pocket or just left them at your desk in the middle of the one room schoolhouse?

 

[Sasquatch]

My backpack is full of fishing tackle.

 

[deemus]

My backpack is full of fishing tackle.

I have a fishing backpack. I use it when I jetty fish at the coast.

 

[General Zod]

I have a fishing backpack.

I prefer to use a rod and reel.

 

[deemus]

Nah. That’s too easy.

 

[Texasjack]

So you carried your quill and ink bottle in your pocket or just left them at your desk in the middle of the one room schoolhouse?

True story: I started school in first grade in a 3 room schoolhouse. First, second, and third grade were in one room with one teacher, 4th, 5th, & 6th in another room, and 7th & 8th in the last room where my father was the teacher, principal, and sometimes janitor, as well as the only bus driver. During second grade, that teacher died. The school was being closed and the kids all moved to a consolidated school anyway, but we had already moved to that town so I moved without my class mates. In the new school, the desks didn't have an inkwell, and they didn't have 50 years worth of kids carving their initials into the tops. (No one knew what the inkwell was for, except for playing desk golf with bits of rolled paper.) The chalkboards were green instead of black. One day the teacher asked for a volunteer to clean the erasers. I jumped at the chance to do something I knew oh so well. The teacher was surprised at how clean the erasers were when I brought them back. 15 minutes later, the principal came in the room and I was suddenly in deep trouble. How the hell was I supposed to know that they had a vacuum machine that cleaned erasers? I did what I had done back in the first school - I pounded the erasers on the brick wall behind the school until they were clean. I found that I learned a lot less in the new school with the teacher on our asses all day instead of getting the teacher's attention for 1/3 of the time and having any free time to read or work on the 2nd or 3rd grade's lessons.

There were no people carrying books in backpacks back then. You carried your books in a stack on your hip. A few people had a strap around them. Backpacks were for soldiers or mountain climbers. If you did something like that, it would attract the attention of bullies, and back then the schools didn't give a crap about your feelings or the bruises you might get. Learning to deal with it was part of school. I was a teachers kid and smarter than most of the rabble - what would be considered a "nerd" today - so I had a target painted on my back. An 8th grade kid who got paddled by my dad would look for 1st grade me after school to take out his frustration, usually with a group of his friends. Eventually I got big enough to hit back and that stopped the problem.

 

[Younggun]

shit, when I was in school you got beat up if your shoes came from Walmart.

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

shit, when I was in school you got beat up if your shoes came from Walmart.

I'll always remember paying for my school lunch while getting made fun of because of my off brand shoes by the kids getting a free lunch while wearing their brand new Jordans.

 

[zackmars]

I have an mp5 in mine...

 

[seeker_two]

I'D RATHER CARRY A BACKPACK THAN A FANNY OUCH!

Depending on the gal, I'd rather carry the fanny....

...with the hooker?

 

[Younggun]

Backpack tips the pros use:

Tie the excess length from the shoulder straps together across your waist so the bulleys can’t come up behind you and pull the straps off your shoulders.

Wear the backpack as a front pack. This provides more protection to your vitals, especially if you have a ballistic plate inserted. And it looks really cool. As a bonus, if you keep it full it creates a space barrier to keep women from getting too close to your peepee.