Kids these days

[triskellian]

(In backlash against being five yesterday, today I shall be seventy-five ;-)

Parts of my journey to work are shared by dozens of teenagers walking to school, and I have observed that all of them wear their backpacks properly, on both shoulders. What is the world coming to? In my day, no one used both shoulder straps, and backache be damned!

[Poll #1023562]

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[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I had a shoulder bag at school, but these days tend to use a rucksack/backpack (largely because we have a stack of free ones from rotwang's conference/work type stuff). The rucksack goes on one shoulder most of the time, or on both if it's especially heavy, if I need my hands free, or if I'm doing something which is likely to cause it to come loose (example; pulling a suitcase)