Back to School Off-Topic
Well, I’ve only been blogging since March. But so far, Labor Day weekend is the deadest ever. So instead of posting anything serious today, I’ll just suggest that you could skip this post and take a look at the previous one. It could use a few more comments before we go on…
But for now, here’s another blast from the past…
Schoolbags
What is the best thing to use for carrying your books around? The 1960s came up with the answer, “A green bag.”
It was just like the bag for bringing your marbles to school, if that helps, only bigger. Or just picture Santa Clause’s big green sack. They were like that.
Each morning before the bell rang, kids would line the hallways, bent over at the waist, searching for yesterday’s assignment, with just our butts projecting from the tops of our schoolbags. Papers would be flying through the air in crumpled yellow wads or drifting white sheets. Pencils hit the walls like shrapnel. Some of the shorter kids would topple over, only their feet sticking out. Bullies would come by and pull the drawer strings.
By seventh grade, some of us decided schoolbags weren’t too cool. This started the trend of carrying stacks of books under our arms and dropping them a lot.
Copyright Paul Martin 2005 all rights reserved
But for now, here’s another blast from the past…
Schoolbags
What is the best thing to use for carrying your books around? The 1960s came up with the answer, “A green bag.”
It was just like the bag for bringing your marbles to school, if that helps, only bigger. Or just picture Santa Clause’s big green sack. They were like that.
Each morning before the bell rang, kids would line the hallways, bent over at the waist, searching for yesterday’s assignment, with just our butts projecting from the tops of our schoolbags. Papers would be flying through the air in crumpled yellow wads or drifting white sheets. Pencils hit the walls like shrapnel. Some of the shorter kids would topple over, only their feet sticking out. Bullies would come by and pull the drawer strings.
By seventh grade, some of us decided schoolbags weren’t too cool. This started the trend of carrying stacks of books under our arms and dropping them a lot.
Copyright Paul Martin 2005 all rights reserved
posted by Paul @ 10:42 AM
10 Comments:
The best thing for my schoolbooks ever was a bag I made from an old pair of jeans I cut off the legs and sewed the bottom
It was beautiful (and with a thousand patched, man that pair of jeans was so worn out)
Very colorful
I rem those days when I used to carry a heavy schoolbag full of neatly stacked books n my beautiful pencil case...I just loved my schoolbag...
Keshi.
Renee and Keshi: You guys had better school bags than I did...
Or maybe you were just better school bag packers...
I did not have a school bag when growing up (oh poor deprived African child) carried books in my hand. Now I am a bag-aholic - to make up for it I suppose.
I never paid so much attention to my bag...was it every year a new bag or was till it had worn out...all I knew I had this habit during school that I loved giving gifts to my friends till my dad found out that I use to take all these toys under his account...Was funny come to think of it
Ah I remember the swings between the backbreaking days and the cool'n'lite days!
:-)
Uaridi, Iamnasra, A: The thing I don't get is why, at least in the US, it took them so long to figure out backpacks could be used for books and not just hiking!
funny visual image i got!
my bag... i only remember my last bag. that is because I kept it (and occasionally used it) till earlier this year. don't know where it is at the moment, but plan to check.
kids these days carry bags that are too big for their little backs.
I used to have a bag that looked like a monkey...now, kids have to use those see-thru bags, to make sure there are no weapons hidden inside. Sadness.
I never new it was for hiking ...I always thought it was for school ...I guess we never had hiking down here in Arabia
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