Richard J. wrote:
Adrian Clark wrote:
Small backpacks don't usually bother me too much (I often carry a
guitar across London when I'm doing studio work, so I can't really
complain) but what really annoys me is the huge craze for square
"suitcase on wheels" thingies.

These things could become quite a hazard. Even in non-threatening
situations, like hurrying for a train, I'll judge my quickest route
across the station concourse (particularly Victoria) by scanning the
general movement of people's heads. If I see a gap, I'll make a
beeline for it. However, you don't see the slow moving
suitcase-on-wheels until you're practically falling over it.

If you're moving so fast that you're in danger of "falling over" a large
suitcase that you've failed to notice, it sounds as if your speed
through a crowded concourse is itself a hazard. Don't complain about
other people if you can't be bothered to adjust your speed to the
conditions.



As a late follow-up to this, three times in the last week or two I've
been clobbered and nearly taken out from behind by someone rushing past
me dragging one of those cases, when they see that they can get through
a gap, but give no consideration to whether the case they are dragging
will get through.

The things are much more of a menace than backpacks. I am always
seeing people falling over them.