Sunday, March 15, 2009

Slanted Closet Organizer

Reflections on teenagers and postural defects


The other day I chatted with Sara that some time working in a high school and by good "old" of nearly 30 years reflects on changing times and fashions of teenagers.
For those of our generation, there was a change that has been the watershed, a break, as the fall of the Roman Empire, caused the shift from an era (ours) to a 'another: the demise of the backpack dell'INVICTA.
Now how this happened, whether gradually or suddenly, I can not say. I just know that when we went to high school we invicta backpack was a must, to the point that you were considered unlucky if you do not have it. Now nobody's got more and indeed, if you have it you are deemed a loser.
I wonder how this change could have affected the future of the company invicta but it's not the point.
dell'invicta backpack was a status symbol, it gave you a sense of belonging, was something that denoted what you did (gggiovane a student) and who you were (certainly not a loser).
There were several types: the simple "mono", those with unlikely combinations of colors like fuchsia, green and orange (typically year 90) or the fantasy "theme" developed by Mr. Invicta from year to year to sell more (psychedelic, dedicated to the Indian, save the dolphins, no incinerators, W sandals with the eyes ...) or historical ones, which are inherited by the brothers, all of which faded in place of the buckles had great small ones.
Often backpack dell'invicta served to let others know about the universe-after indiscriminate use posca-your feelings (Francy TVTB, Mary TAT, W FIA) your faith (force juve, forza milan, strength Pistoia ) or just who the hell you were (L. Ely, '79 Chicca, G. Matte). If you happen to change your mind about one of those things you had two choices: wash until a backpack, along with his color, did not go away a bit 'of each posca and write on your new views or directly change the backpack buying a new invicta.
But what has truly marked a whole generation, my, it was not the type of backpack dell'invicta, but as it was brought.
Now, we know that the backpack is specially made to be worn on both shoulders (just happens to have two strings on the back, not one like that among the other shoulder has met with limited success) but I do not know why a some point it turned out that the fashion pack dell'invicta was brought on one shoulder: If he carries two were, needless to say, one loser like those who had no backpack dell'invicta.
What then is the only bond that you used the mica could hold tight! no, it must be slow so that the backpack hanging in the ass, sometimes you knock them over directly.
Now, as more often than the books that we brought to school and many were too heavy for the tower of Pisa as we bend the other side as a counterweight.
What's more you could put the mica backpacker first resting on top, like on a bench! no, doing so was to be losers (who gets to tell you) you had to lift it off the ground, rotate it and place it directly in the shoulder with a noise like that CIAC was sometimes caused by the backpack flapping on the jacket, on your other shoulder that is luxury.
Hence here the damage: an entire generation of young people brought every day to 5, sometimes 6, 7 or 8 years (depending on how many times the school years) the Zano on one shoulder ... fuck our backs it must have felt bad!
Just as has happened to some anthropologists who have found ancient skeletons with bones orredamente deformed by some kind of absurd fashion maybe one thousand years of anthropologists to study the future of our skeletons and will wonder why a number of skeletons have a shoulder more lower than the other.
The answer, dear anthropologists and archaeologists of the future, I give it to you: it is a backpack dell'INVICTA!

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