Bad Bag Taste

Another school run this morning (although this time it was just the one!), and I parked the car down the bottom of the road so we could walk the rest of the way to school. At Marie's school (the junior/primary school), everyone has those little wheely bags, similar to suitcases, with the plastic pull-along handle and two wheels on one side. They’re pretty hilarious, and I always remember desperately wanting one when I was that age. I mean, COME ON. Wheels! Half the effort to carry it! 

Thank goodness my Mother had the sense NOT to buy me one! I see all these girls with pink suitcase-style bags, proudly pulling them along to school. We catch up to one parent and daughter in front, and I notice that this girl has a particularly ‘jazzy’ suitcase-bag in pink, with a sparkly cat on the front, and flashing wheels. Yes-that’s-right. Flashing wheels. 

I wonder if Marie is jealous of this ‘must-have’ bag being proudly paraded in front? Her own school bag is pink also, but rather more demure and modest unlike this Ferrari-equivalent bag. Although I actually feel sorry for this girl as she’ll be the most embarrassed about it 5 years down the road, when people remember her as ‘Oh you were the one with the bag and the flashing wheels’. Maybe not such a Ferrari-equivalent then...