[RKDinOKC]

You had a backpack? What a waste of money.

Don't remember carrying and books or hardly anything back and forth to school in elementary. And you kept everthing in your desk and had the same classroom all day, week, month, semester, grade.

Carried a satchel for books etc. in Jr high. Yep, a nerdy lookin weirdo. Made life carrying a saxophone and books tolerable riding the bus though. And didn't get any guff as swing them they became formidable weapons.

Just carried the stack of stuff plus my sax when in HS. Got too cool for the satchel lol. And it was getting pretty worn out after two years. Quickly made friends with upper classmen and got to ride around in their cars so didn't have to lug the stuff walking just under a mile to school.

In College kept up with the stack under the arm thing and that included riding my bike across campus. My 10 speed bike was the best. The derailleur was messed up and from low gear would shift back to the middle gear as you rode. However it shifted at just the right speed that you shifted to first, started riding and it shifted like an automatic transmission going to the next gear at the right time. Perfect for riding with no hands carrying my books and notebooks to class.

Honestly back then, if you put books in a backpack the weight would pull the zipper open and everything would fall out. They weren't really designed for books back then. When they first started working to carry books they were called book bags not back packs.