“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” Andy Rooney
So here I am sitting here in the library on campus working on a paper that is due in 2 hours and 40 minutes. I have been distracted by what I will call my Andy Rooney Moment. If you are unfamilar with Andy Rooney you need to watch 60 Minutes on Sundays. Every week Andy has the closing minutes of the show to rant about what ever he wants and well most of the time its just nonsense.
On to my moment. As I am sitting here working on my paper I noticed a few young ladies walking by and sitting down at the table next to me. Here is my issue. Each of them have multiple bags. They have on a backpack, then have a big “Vera” style shoulder bag, and then they have a small handbag purse. Honestly how many bags does one person need to have at a time. They look like they are going on a trip and are trying to navigate through the airport. When they sit down each of them takes up two chairs, one for them and the other for all their bags. I watched as they began unpacking things out of each bag. Out of one comes their books, a laptop out of the other, and then some snacks and a cell phone from the third. I don’t know about you but I have one nice backpack that i carry all of that in.
Is this a new fashion statement, or a sign of the stupidity that is plaguing our college campus’ today. When did life become SO complicated that you have to have multiple bags just to go to class for the afternoon. So I will leave you with this. Simplify your life, take the time to go and buy a good bag that will suit all of your needs.
Now I must go on to my paper about integrated marketing communications and it’s relevance to life today. They young ladies are still sitting there, but now with there coffee slurping so very loudly. Thank God for itunes and my earphones.
Filed under: Andy Rooney Moments, society | Tagged: andy rooney, ranting, society
im glad im not the only one who spaces out when work is needed to be done.
i have andy rooney moments every day. you should see some of the fashion majors here…the queens of materialism here, and it makes me sick.
I would like to think I will never be as bad as having three bags. But I think a purse and a bookbag is reasonable… especially when (like last night) you are not going to have the book bag with you all day… But these girls do sound a bit ridiculous.