When did it become cool again to start wearing your backpack on both shoulders?
I remember in 5th grade, I couldn’t wait to get to junior high for 2 things: changing classes and wearing your back pack on one shoulder! I don’t know why I didn’t consider doing that earlier, but it felt like a junior high rite of passage that a 5th grader wouldn’t dare attempt.
Finally the day came and the I trolloped into class with one bare shoulder. It felt quite liberating, until I ended up receiving my text books and the walk home was killer. How did anyone put up with this? Even with lockers, you still had to take the books home to supposedly complete your homework. I never let a sore shoulder compromise my coolness. If everyone else could do it, then I most certainly could. All the cool kids on tv wore it this way, from Saved By The Bell to Beverly Hills, 90210. And if I saw someone wearing the backpack on both shoulders, I would incessantly mock them for not being able to handle the one-shoulder carry. Yes, I was mean, but I blame my immature 12 yr old self.
Then at some point, perhaps during college, the dual shoulder wearing backpacks returned. Why didn’t anyone inform me of this change? I must have went several months before I took notice and of course, just as I finally decided to evenly distribute the ever-so-growing weight of my backpack again, the shoulder bags became the cool new fad to wear. What was I to do? Kick it old-school with the dual-shoulder backpack or go out and buy me one of those shoulder bags? I kept true to my roots and stayed with the backpack.
And still do.
