After delivering the minty Christmas goodies - which, by the way, I think I've decided next year will simply be a toffee tasting - I was off to help out S&K for the afternoon and watch little J-man. Just as I was getting into their SUV to leave work, this happened.
You may not be able to tell what this is, but it's the handle of the rolling computer bag I've used since about 2008. It's kind of sad and good all at the same time. This bag and I have been through quite a lot together and some would say that I should have replaced her years ago. And I have to admit that there is some validity to their argument since I've had to baby her for probably 4 of the last 6 years we have been together. She "can be temperamental like a lady" is what I have said for years when people and random strangers tried to help by collapsing her handles. They simply couldn't do it.
It took a special technique to get her handles to collapse. I say technique when it was really more of a dance that involved squeezing the handle, while pushing in on one of the buttons that held the handles in place in the extended position and simultaneously pushing the handles back down into the collapsed position - except that even then the handles wouldn't collapse fully. They would usually get stuck in just about the spot you see in the pic, at which point we went into the second dance movement - what I like to call the Bang and Press. It involved multiple up and down moves while still squeezing the release on the handle and hope that it would fully collapse. Trust me, people at work loved this little dance. First they could hear that I was in, because they knew this bag's "roll cadence" and then it was the collapse technique and dance. At least I gave people a morning routine to expect each day, right?
And it was during the Bang and Press that her handle finally broke. And there really is no way I can fix her or continue to work with her.
So now I have to say good-bye to the technique and to the dance and to this bag. But I didn't go out shopping for a new bag last night. Nope, one of the main reasons I've held off getting a new one in spite of all of this technique and dance gig is because I hate shopping for bags like this. I even hate shopping for purses! If I could embrace the idea that purses and laptop bags are accessories, then I suppose I might enjoy shopping for them, but I can't seem to embrace that idea.
First off I don't like big, accessory-like purses. I like little purses where I have no room in the inn to keep losing things. Purses serve a purpose and that purpose is to house money, insurance and other important ID cards, a nail file and clippers, and Chapstick. (Mint is preferred please.) And that is about it.
Likewise with my laptop bags. They serve a purpose which is to house the laptop along with sundry business docs and tools, and be easy to maneuver in an airport - hence the wheels.
But neither are fashion accessories in my mind. Which is why I went looking for an old backpack around here to use until I can muster up the gumption to go shopping for a new laptop bag...one that my company will reimburse me for - I just hate shopping for these things. And now I face that whole dilemma of wheels or no wheels.
See why I hate this?
You don't?
Hmm...ok...
So instead of shopping for a laptop bag, we wrapped presents!
And finished off all but two Christmas cards! (Why are there always a couple of addresses that I just can't find?) And wrapped the gifts for R&E and K&E that we failed to pack last weekend! Woo-hoo!! Beats shopping for a laptop bag any day. And twice on Sunday. (What is the origin of that phrase?)
I must Google it...
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