Friday Rant - by Andrew Griffiths
a man with a bag
For the last few years, the number of people pulling very small bags with wheels around airports seems to have expanded exponentially. Strangely, a lot of these are seemingly able bodied young men. When it was just a few people pulling these, mainly old women, it wasn’t a problem but now don’t you find yourself increasingly getting cut up by these things? The bags are so small, you barely register them until you walk into the extending handle bit.
old lady with bag - as it should be
I have noticed in recent weeks a more disturbing development. Seemingly able bodied young men pulling these tiny little bags around the underground. On several occasions said individuals have paused right at the top of the escalators so they can drop their poncy little wheeled bag and extend the handle bit, thus causing a pile up for the people behind. I am specifically talking about the escalator linking the south bound bakerloo line with the east bound district line at Embankment: a very busy stretch of underground on any weekday morning rush hour.
What’s wrong with taking it like a man and carrying it? And don’t give us some crap that you are a lawyer and its full of heavy documents. Its too goddam small to ever be heavy.
Its surely just a matter of time before normal law abiding people start taking matters into their own hands. A good pair of Doc Martin boots should do the trick.
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(((This morning, feeling particularly tired and grumpy due to lack of sleep last night (not caused by our 3 month old baby, or even by wife and her NCT mates coming back to ours and drinking until 3am, but by the dog repeatedly licking my face to wake me up as she grew more alarmed about the drunken women downstairs) I came very close to kicking one of these bags out of the way. I managed to stop myself but it’s surely just a matter of time…)))
