you_know_you_need_a_new_bookbag_when florescent light you have a trail of people behind you picking up an array of books...and waterbottles...and pop tarts... and floppy disks...and maxi pads...and pens...and paychecks... that have fallen through the 3 different holes that you've been in constant denial about for 4 months now. 010322 ... ... the zipper opens from the wrong side when you're on the bus in the wrong side of town and you've just come back from buying some cd's, some books, a videogame, some porn and some office supplies 010322 ... frAnk you pour a whole tazo tea on a library book and have to pay for it. you know abercrombie just came out with a new bookbag, got to scrape up some lire. 010322 ... lost when the bottom rips out and you just think your books have fallen out so you put them back in and by the time you realize they are still on the ground people have stomped on them causeing payable damage. 010322 ... dB I have bound a way around that one. Use a camera bag. Sounds silly but it ain't. It's got pockets for all your tech stuff, mobile, pager, and whatever. Then you got a pocket for all your pills and smokes. Then there is the main middle compartment. You put yer books in there, and a few CD's (because there is also a pocket to put your discman in) and you are away. They last forever as well. I have used one for about 5 years now. Sure it's old and beaten up, and smells like coffee, but man is it reliable. 010322 ... silentbob The staples you used to pin the hole in the top AND bottom to the rest of it rip out every time you pick it up making the entire process futile to being with. 010322 ... Mr. Wonderful You know you need a new bookbag when When you lose your book bag 010322 ... fuck you too bitch blather is a bunch of fucking idiots 010323 ... Dafremen (ignoring roving moron above) when you're waiting for your bus and someone comes along, takes one look at your bookbag, shakes their head, gives you a pitiful look and flips a quarter at your feet. 010323 ... twiggie when the zipper doesn't close it when you attempt to zip it up...and then in the middle of the hallway, after trying for 10 minutes to get it closed and finally succeed, it breaks and all of the contents spill on the floor. that one never fails with my backpacks... 010323 ... Dafremen Your friend looks at your canvas bookbag and compliments you on your "macrame" bookbag. 010430 ... claudia the inside of its front pocket, originally designated for pen-holdiing, is now coated in chocolate from an accident you had at halloween involving a candy gift with a broken wrapper. 010430 ... yummychuckle your once "sunshine yellow" bookbag is now a "sludge brown", and it looks like that was the color it was intended to be 010605 ... dB Alas, it is a time of change. I'm going through a whole transitional period here. New house. New Job(s). New Band. New Computer. And now my camera/bookbag has died. Zip has fallen off. stiching is coming apart, lining is torn and withered. Holes. Everything. I need a new one. So I'm going to Comrades tomorrow. It's the army surplus shop. They have everything to soothe the pain. Bags, boots, expired condensed milk and hand grenades. 010606 ... nocturnal at work I noticed a few of you had complaints about the zipper not zipping. I decided I would help you out. I've had a bookbag from Gap for years. I know, I hate Gap as much as the next guy, but the bookbag's still in excellent shape and it fits absolutely everything. Gap makes good bookbags with sturdy zippers! 010606 ... unhinged your mom shoves one in your face and says 'get rid of the old one. it's dirty.' 010606 ... User24 the old one breaks? 020514 ... re you have three broken zippers. the cordura bottom has been permeated with several layers of ducktape. only one strap is attached. such ios my friend's bag, yet he denies that there is a lack of functionality. 020514 ... reitoei you have three broken zippers. the cordura bottom has been permeated with several layers of ducktape. only one strap is attached. such is my friend's bag, yet he denies that there is a lack of functionality. 020514 ... little wonder the zipper broke again. always happens with mine, always. i might have to go ahead and try a gap one...if they are selling them around this time. 020514 ... Sailor Jupiter You are going to be a Junior in college and have had the same bag that you bought at K-mart at the end of your Junior year of High School. All the plastic has come out of the inside so when I walk to campus in the rain everything inside gets soaked. 020514 ... Tildan yeah, gap really build personality 020514 ... Tildan you eat it 020514 ... josie you dont look half as rich/smart/bound for a high paying job/pretentious as the other economics law student next to you. you know what Ian rhymes with? Dickhead! 020817 ... neverender ...you run out of surface area for your friends to graffiti and write messages on with sharpies and white out pens. 020817 ... phsyke you notice that each time you pull out your book to write more pointless uni notes you're never intending to read over, there's a subtle yet definite smell emanating from the pages. 020917 ... cest vrai You know you need a new bookbag when someone puts a gun to your head and says "I'll shoot you in the face if you don't get a new bookbag." 020918 ... DannyH Your old bookbag comes home two hours late and you're just about to start an argument about the dinner being ruined and it stops you with a look and says "We need to talk." 020919 ... jane your old bookbag is 6 months behind in rent, eats all your peanut butter by the spoonful, and leaves his smelly hockey gear everywhere 020919 ... ShnizelCheese Bookbag replacement..... hmmm.... this must be a worldwide thing... When have written and drawn so many things on your nice canvas bookbag which you got so you could draw on it and its like so out of date to own one of these really shitty things so you get a new backpack type bag and everyone buys a canvas one..... How can you be out of fashion if you havent been in. 030327 ... User24 dannyH, that's depressing. I now have images of my bag breaking up with me. 030327 ... pipedream when the buckle that adjusts the strap is broken, so you knotted up the strap anyway but the knot keeps coming undone the minute you put more than two books in it. when you left a banana in the front pocket during the summer holidays and that turned it a weird shade of brown. when the little hole in the side keeps getting bigger by some warped backpack magic. when you can zip only one side of the zipper, since the zip-pull for the other side doesn't work anymore. i miss my trusty old eastpak. biker-chick strap messenger bags are all very well,i love mine, but you can't beat a backpack. *sniff*. i must be getting nostalgic in my old age *lol* 030327 ... know it...... its me when the people say , my love cannot be true, : Black Sabbath you know, If you dont have a place to carry your music, forget it, .....here starts the thing, where i can leave the square plastic box. Here is the answer my friend. 040704 ... Deomis ...the inside is covered with duct tape(the only thing holding it together), and the outside is white with paint that is covering up all the dumb things you wrote on it throughout the years. 040705 ... ItGirl The duct tape on the corner is begining to fray and the saftey pins that hold the left side closed begin to rust and the green begins too look suspiciously like brown and the shoulder straps are no longer enough to wiegh you down. 040705 ... dudeinanigloo - The strap that you use to one-shoulder your backpack breaks and you have to use the left one all the way home so your mom can sew it back together; - You spill water into the compartment that you carry all your flow pens in, and the part of the backpack around the compartment that was white is now green. - The load gets so heavy that it breaks the zipper open in the middle, and when you open the zipper from the other side, it's open on both ends, and you have to force it closed on the other side with all the strength you can muster, only to find that it doesn't close all the way because one side of the zipper is shorter than the other side for some reason... (all real stories from yours truly) 040705 ... sayhitoyourmom when ur finally back in college after 5 yrs of working a shitty job and pissing off ur parents 040706 ... Random.dll you see a symbiotic parasite feeding off the crumbs, spilled soda, chewing gum and mold that has been gestating at the bottom inside your patent leather bookbag. 040706 ... kookaburra when your locker d-splodes. luckily, that hasnt happened to me yet... also, you need a new backpack when the chocolate, potato chips, and other miscellaneous food items in the bottom of your backpack really begin to be annoying 040706 what's it to you? who go blather from