Do you have a Grumpy Sherpa living with you?
We do.
The phrase was coined by Groover watching Dippity stomp off to school one day.
She was carrying her backpack, a sportsbag and a third bag carrying her laptop.
At least these days kids get backpacks. When I were a young lass it was a gaping stretched bag with one handle over the shoulder and the other about a foot to the side, stretched by more lever arched files than I knew what to do with. Plus lunch. Plus sports gear and all those heavy books. It can’t have been good for us yet I don’t have a back problem. Touchwood.
I used to walk along reading my favourite novel trying not to poleaxe myself on bustops – which were just at the height that made them difficult to notice with my peripheral vision.
I try to be sympathetic, I really do but often I find myself waving cheerily goodbye.
“Ta ta darling! Have a lovely day…” As I snigger at our newly minted description – our little grumpy sherpa.
Bless.
photo credit: Boo Boo Bumpy Bear
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I had one of those huge shoulder bag for school too. Nearly broke my back! Don’t know how it is that we don’t all walk around leaning to one side these days.
This is one area where the American system appears to be better than ours. Heavy text books and folders are left in lockers at school, with homework assignments handed out by teachers and completed on looseleaf pages, which are then stored in ONE folder which is carried back and forth. Homework sheets are then handed to whichever teacher they “belong” to.
We are not into the heavy bag business yet. I’m sure next year will be a different story though… highschool *gasp*
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