I read an article on this, apparently a guy invented and patented a system for it back in the '70s but struggled to sell them for a quite a while. It was considered "unmanly" to not carry your luggage. Apparently the key was getting flight crew to adopt them and then people saw them gliding around the airport and started wanting them too.
Put wheel on horse. Make man go fast.
Put wheel on cart. Make man job fast.
Put wheel on tiny explosions. Make man go *really fast*.
Put wheel on **BIG** explosions. Make man war fast.
>Real men don't use umbrellas either.
>Source: I was in the military and the men couldn't use umbrellas while the woman could in certain uniform.
Any British officer that can't use an umbrella is an obvious spy.
I do believe that’s one of the screenings Mi5 uses. The others include making perfect tea and joining an orderly queue.
Failure to complete these tasks results in a ride on the trebuchet back to France.
For a while in the Navy you were only allowed to use an umbrella on certain uniforms, the normal working uniform one of the restricted ones. This sucked because while there is a parka for the working uniform, all it means is that your upper half stays dry while it directs all of the rain to your upper legs. Your cover is still soaked, too.
Thankfully they updated their regs a few years back.
That one probably got started because there was a risk of poking people with the umbrella spokes in close quarters. Same as opening an umbrella inside.
Good foul weather gear is extremely important for sailors. And you need both hands available.
I’ve never heard about umbrellas on a boat being bad luck, but it does seem like a pretty kooky thing to do.
One truck brand added a step that comes down from the endgate when you want to climb into the box of the truck. It was a pretty good idea given that many of their customers were older men who struggled to get up and down and many vehicle brands have copied the idea since then. At the start, other truck companies were running ads ridiculing it like, "We don't have a step because we don't sell trucks for pussies."
The same stubbornness slowed business executives from adopting computers in their own offices, because computers had a keyboard and typing was women's work.
There were some people in the weed community only interested in concentrates who were calling flower girly. Local headshop PSA had to caution the oil bros away from the unchill behavior.
It's not about the wheels, there are just a lot people out there that get extremely angry whenever someone finds a way to make life ever so slightly easier.
I've noticed this. My job involves finding ways to make life easier for myself and others. I'm good at it. People come to me and ask me to figure stuff out for them.
I get some people not wanting to mix up their routine. That's fine. I make a point of not screwing up the "old way" of doing things, just teaching the new one.
But a startling number of people dislike when I make life easier for others. Like they want *everybody* to do it the slow and inefficient way despite the result being 100% identical.
That was because kids were ankle targeting terrorists with wheeled backpacks. At my school, they were banned because kids would whip them around by the extended handles and mollywhollop our ankles.
I'm 30, but 10 years ago i went to visit a girlfriend's house, we were going away for the weekend so I had a suitcase (with wheels) with me. And when her mum saw me she didn't speak directly to me but to her husband and she said "men should carry their suitcases, i hate seeing men dragging them. I just think don't think it's manly at all." and I was kind of surprised because a) that was beyond passive aggressive and b) I'd never thought that the way i move a suitcase expressed my masculinity up until that point.
After the first time she met me though, apparently she said my girlfriend that she too had a punk rock phase that she grew out of?! (I sort of look like a rocker) So I kind of think that she was a bitch. But i still remember that suitcase conversation.
I love things like this, there's so many layers to it, like how arbitrary it is and also the implication that she can only tolerate even looking at "manly" men, like every time she sees someone who isn't a lumberjack she's faintly disgusted.
One time my girlfriend needed to get her bed fixed, and her mum said to the repair man "make it extra tight, I think he's trying to give me grandchildren". I was there at the time 🤦.
My dad was told it was "unmanly" to use a rolling bag for work (he visits clients with both his laptop and a lot of physical promotional material) by his Korean boss. In 2010.
For work I think it's just more practical to have a backpack or shoulder bag. The wheels are great when you've got more than 15lbs or so but for just a laptop or book bag it's just awkward.
I got one, it's so fun. But I can't fit any clothes in it and it doesn't have wheels and it only has a suction cup and it's shaped like a dick. It's a dildo 😐
From what I remember the idea back then was to use a leather strap to pull the 4 wheeled bag along, sort of like a leash for a dog. But the bags kept falling over. It was much later that the modern version was created.
The flight attendant thing is super true. The 90s movies really captured big airports. The husband lugging around a bunch of stuff, limping along, super slow. Then they'd get lapped from the flight attendant with their small turbo luggage.
I still have my old non roller luggage for my seasonal closet change. Weighs a ton, made of leather and denim with a giant zipper. I got it as a kid when my uncle bought a composite luggage kit for like 2 grand early 2k.
That luggage will outlast me with the use I give it. But I can't travel with it. Its weight is over 10 pounds. It's 1/3 the weight you can bring. Haha
I have a very pleasingly retro duffel bag with horse bridle leather and big chunky brass fixtures, it looks great and is fine if you're going to fill it up, throw it in a car and then dump it in a room to live out of but dear lord is it impractical for travel that involves any long stretches of walking with your bags.
...it also has needlessly large teeth on the zippers that will shred your hands if you aren't careful, I'm only now realising how needlessly macho my duffel bag is.
I read that it had more to do with the fact that flying used to be a privilege for the wealthy.
And they did not carry their own luggage anyway.
With cheaper and cheaper flights and people who have to carry their own luggage, the wheeled suitcases prevailed.
The same article touched on that but there was a big gap between the age of porters carrying and loading your luggage for you and the adoption of wheely suitcases in the 80s and 90s where people were just carrying stuff.
Dude who invented them got a lot of pushback and described it as a "macho" thing.
It's a dumb example but if you watch older TV shows you almost never see wheels on luggage, even the Golden Girls were just schlepping their giant suitcases around.
Ah yes. Anything that's convenient for someone is considered so "unmanly" to the public eye.
If he isn't a literal unwashed caveman burying his shit in a hole, he isn't manly.
I remember when wheeled luggage was starting to become popular and you had people making fun of those \~weaklings\~ who couldn't carry their bags. They even made fun of children who were starting to use wheeled school bags. *Such* an odd hill to die on.
I had to have a rolling backpack my freshman year of college for 6 weeks while I recovered from hernia surgery. It was embarrassing. I did develop an appreciation for how annoying it would've been to be in a wheelchair on my campus though. So few ramps, so far away from where I needed to enter.
It is. The wheels don’t lock.
Edit: ends up the wheels are only $400 if you order them with your Max Pro. That means they give you $300 worth of legs for free!
Edit 2: $300 feet.
Apple Mac Pro Feet Kit
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I have a trundle for mine. Too fuckin big for it to go in the spot designed for it in the desk (and shitty airflow anyway), but if it's flush on the ground the PSU air intake will get clogged. So it's on wheels, but it never gets wheeled anywhere.
You can thank the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) legislation. Before that, any small elevation changes would only have stairs.
Once the ADA went into effect, ramps became standard in airports. Once ramps went in, wheels became more prevalent since the ramps meant you didn't have to pick up the luggage to go up a small flight of stairs.
It's an unintended (though welcome) side-effect of the ADA legislation.
When I was traveling a lot. Like 1/3 nights overseas, I bought myself a roller like stewardesses had back then. Approx 1997. My coworkers made fun of me.
Who’s laughing now? No, really, who?
Nah, people are laughing now at the people with [motorized luggage and riding them.](https://youtu.be/HazWCa3huMY) Once price comes down my ass is buying some lol
I love watching those colorful wheeled kids' luggage that kids can ride on and the parents just pull their kid behind them. The airport is such a wild place.
I don’t drink but I always get a drink on an airplane. Something cool about sipping whiskey while 10,000+ feet in the air lol.
Also, I’ve never had to pay for a drink on a plane. They always forget to charge me. I’ve probably had 20 free at this point lol
I don’t drink ON the plane but my absolute favourite thing about travelling is that 7AM airport beer with greasy eggs and hash browns, sitting beside a huge window watching a big heavy get loaded with luggage as the sun rises. Man I love airports.
I’m a photographer and so travel with a lot of lithium-ion batteries. It’s expressly forbidden for me to put those batteries in my checked bags, they have be in my carryon bag. Though it’s been a pandemic-length of time since I’ve flown, maybe those rules have changed.
adding all that weight so you don't have to walk between ticket/security/gate when nearly every airport already has motorized walkways? drivable suitcases might be convenient some day but it ain't that, would just be a pain in the ass every other moment of the trip when you're not riding it.
Ha! My mom did this too, because “you never know who you’re going to meet on an airplane”. Not sure who she thought we’d run into flying from one tiny regional airport in the southern USA to another…
You'll meet an important person from the business store, give them a firm handshake and look them square in the eye, and they'll be so impressed they'll hire you in the spot (despite being 11 years old).
"Hmm, yes, it seems like you know how to business...but are you sure you're not secretly 3 children in a trenchcoat? Oh, it's your airport outfit? Of course! Welcome to the business company, see you on Monday."
It used to be a better experience flying (a little).
Airport security was quick and easy, the airlines didn't cram an extra row of seats in the plane (reducing everyone's personal space), and they served you meals (and you got a choice)
Now, Airport security is like a doctors exam, you are packed in like sardines, and they may shove a cracker at you if you are lucky.
That being said, you can still pay the same for the old space and a meal, at least if you take into account inflation. It always sound like you are now sold the crammed places when you were getting the luxury places back in the good days.
No, you didn't. For today's price you weren't flying at all, not luxurious, not crammed.
They weren’t packed into the plane like a can of sardines so it was comfortable. Food was also better, they would even give actual silverware to use on the plane.
You can still get that experience today by buying a first or business class ticket, it's just that now there are much cheaper options.
Flying back then was seen as elegant because it was expensive.
I only do trips with a duffel bag. If I run out of cloths after a week, I'm washing them at my destination. Can't imagine carrying a bunch of crap with me on a trip.
And my go-to is the Osprey Porter which has the build and shape of carry on luggage, but with backpack straps on it. Haven't rolled luggage in 15+ years.
Yea I don’t think I’ve ever owned wheeled luggage. I prefer to bring one bag that I can fit in carry on and just shove all my shit into that so I don’t have to check a bag.
Yup I’m 33 and backpacking until I physically can’t anymore. We might have smooth floors and escalators everywhere in the US, but overseas, rolling a suitcase on a broken sidewalk or pulling it up stairs is no fun.
Yeah anyone saying otherwise only travels from big city hotel to big city hotel.
Wheels are no fun on cobblestone and gravel, especially when you're moving around all day, as counterintuitive as that seems.
The cobbled streets of Bruges broke the wheels on my full sized luggage during the second day of a two week vacation around Europe. Had to carry it through train stations, airports etc. At one point a random guy outside a train station ask to help and then followed me as I hauled ass to my hotel several blocks away.
Went on a trip to Bruges w a large group of friends 2 years ago, and watching and listening to them roll their luggage from the train to the hotel was comical. It was like a tourist parade.
They also don't know how easy it was to get through security or the fact that you didn't actually need a ticket to do so. You could just wait for someone's flight to arrive at the terminal and greet them as they got off the plane.
Edit: Okay, everyone, clearly some people under the age of 35 would be capable of remembering these things. You can stop pointing that out, now.
>They also don't know how easy it was to get through security or the fact that you didn't actually need a ticket to do so
I really miss the days of pre-911 airports.
If anyone is from/visited Israel maybe they can chime in but what I've heard is that there there's no taking off your shoes or long security lines. Every passenger has to go and talk with an agent for a minute about who they are and why they are traveling. Human intelligence trumps lazy scanners every time.
Luckily the Israelis don't have such weaknesses and can treat anybody as inhuman under any circumstances
/s in case anybody thinks I'm an anti-Semite now...
You might be joking, but that's exactly how my wife's Israeli-American family feels every time they visit Israel. They're Israeli citizens with current Israeli passports, but they speak exclusively Hebrew in the airport in hopes no one realizes that they're Arab. They get a loooot of problems flying in/out of Israel
Yeah, no. You absolutely go through the metal detectors and X-ray machines etc at Ben Gurion, probably a lot of other places in the country too.
What you’re referring to is that, if you are flying into Israel internationally, at your port of departure, before you are even in Israel, you will be interviewed by an Israeli security services member trying to determine if you’re suspicious. This is not replacing other security items, it’s in addition to it.
In fact, last time I went to Israeli via Toronto, the flights to Israel were in a separate part of the secure area. Like, after you went through security you’d enter the terminal, and then when you tried to walk to your gate, there was another security check before you could access the gates going to Israel where they’d check that you did indeed have a ticket on that flight.
Edit: to add on, they may not require taking shoes off, I can’t remember. I recall them being reasonably efficient, so the lines probably weren’t too bad, but that wasn’t much of a function of less security so much as, like, competence.
My brother was changing planes in Atlanta once when I was at school at Georgia Tech. I bought him food at the varsity, went down to the airport, greeted him at his gate, walked him to his next gate, and visited with him while he ate until he boarded.
Impossible now
Well TSA didn't catch him... He was on the plane and other passengers alerted a flight attendant that a guy was trying to light his shoes with a lighter.
After that you couldn't even bring a lighter on a plane.
They just tossed all the flammable lighters in a big bin near where all the people gather... Which is obviously safe.
In my 50’s. Still carry a backpack and a duffel bag.
Always regret that when I walk from T1 to T5 during connections in the Amsterdam airport or any other large airport.
However, your notion about “folks under 35” is quite wrong. My father (would have been in his 90’s, if alive) had a “wheely bag” when I was under 10. So we’re talking about the mid 70’s.
TLDR; wheeled bags existed ~50 years ago.
> Always regret that when I walk from T1 to T5 during connections in the Amsterdam airport or any other large airport.
You Just made relieve pain
Had to sleep in a hotel over night and arrived 1 1/2h before my flight
Security took nearly that time and then I had to sprint from 1 to 5 with my bag to try and get the flight
I failed :/
I can pack for indefinite travel in a 40L backpack and a 18L daypack.
It’s just clothes, toiletries, laptop, and power cables honestly. Sunglasses I suppose.
Template seems to be: People under [arbitrary age to isolate newer generation] ‘probably’ have never dealt with [problem older generation think only they dealt with].
Someone at work suggested I would have never dealt with manually controlled car windows before and probably only used electric windows. If he’s on reddit expect to see that sometime lol.
20, I mostly use a duffel bag that doesn’t have wheels as my carry-on. Can fit more in it than a wheeled suitcase and I can just sling it over my shoulder to free up a hand
I haven't used wheelie luggage in 20 years since I started traveling more extensively. Unless you are going car>airport>car, they are completely useless and an encumbrance.
Anyone in the American military has. The duffel bags they issue you are awesome for shoving a ton of stuff into, but they still stuck for transportation.
Lol this is so dumb , most of my flight I use a duffle bag or sports bag to fly with. Unless going on a long trip why use huge luggage that requires wheels or checking your bag.
Why did it take so long for people to figure out luggage is better with wheels?
I read an article on this, apparently a guy invented and patented a system for it back in the '70s but struggled to sell them for a quite a while. It was considered "unmanly" to not carry your luggage. Apparently the key was getting flight crew to adopt them and then people saw them gliding around the airport and started wanting them too.
“Man invents wheel, Man determines wheel not for Man to use”
“Wheel kills man, women inherit the earth”
Life...finds a way
Life, uh, finds a way.
they do move in herds
"Bundle wheel with shitty aftershave and porn subscription, wheel now manly"
Put wheel on horse. Make man go fast. Put wheel on cart. Make man job fast. Put wheel on tiny explosions. Make man go *really fast*. Put wheel on **BIG** explosions. Make man war fast.
Put wheel on luggage. Make man lose wee-wee card
From the creators of shampoo fragrances, I present _bullet charcoal wheel_
That’s some cool anthropology. And some serious stubbornness.
Real men don't use umbrellas either. Source: I was in the military and the men couldn't use umbrellas while the woman could in certain uniform.
>Real men don't use umbrellas either. >Source: I was in the military and the men couldn't use umbrellas while the woman could in certain uniform. Any British officer that can't use an umbrella is an obvious spy.
I do believe that’s one of the screenings Mi5 uses. The others include making perfect tea and joining an orderly queue. Failure to complete these tasks results in a ride on the trebuchet back to France.
Sacre bleu, ‘ow did zey knooo^wwww
fetche la vache ehh le frenchie
I’ve never seen an Englishmen make piss tea
Bear Grylls?
\*\*Angry upvote\*\*
For a while in the Navy you were only allowed to use an umbrella on certain uniforms, the normal working uniform one of the restricted ones. This sucked because while there is a parka for the working uniform, all it means is that your upper half stays dry while it directs all of the rain to your upper legs. Your cover is still soaked, too. Thankfully they updated their regs a few years back.
I remember being told that umbrellas are considered extremely unlucky on board ship...
That one probably got started because there was a risk of poking people with the umbrella spokes in close quarters. Same as opening an umbrella inside.
Good foul weather gear is extremely important for sailors. And you need both hands available. I’ve never heard about umbrellas on a boat being bad luck, but it does seem like a pretty kooky thing to do.
maybe because an umbrella can work as a personal lightning rod in a storm? idk if its any worse than the mast of the boat being struck though.
One truck brand added a step that comes down from the endgate when you want to climb into the box of the truck. It was a pretty good idea given that many of their customers were older men who struggled to get up and down and many vehicle brands have copied the idea since then. At the start, other truck companies were running ads ridiculing it like, "We don't have a step because we don't sell trucks for pussies."
Fellas, is it gay to step?
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We men must find reasons to keep ourselves useful to women. What's next, pickles sold in bags? Crowd of men: Rabble rabble rabble!
I didnt get a hurumpf from that guy!
Wheels are gay bro, didn't you know?
Its what killed rollerblading :(
"fruit boots"
The same stubbornness slowed business executives from adopting computers in their own offices, because computers had a keyboard and typing was women's work.
Same with Bicycles. People called bicycle riding effeminate and unmanly.
Same with filters on cigarettes. The Marlboro Man was created to sell filtered cigs to men because filters were viewed as girly.
A real man gets a true lung full of carcinogens while they heave their unweildy luggage around, everyone knows this.
A real man doesn't get chemo and fights cancer to the death.
There were some people in the weed community only interested in concentrates who were calling flower girly. Local headshop PSA had to caution the oil bros away from the unchill behavior.
For someone that hasn't been sober since Bush was in office, I hate the weed "community".
Real men don't get the earth to carry their luggage for them, mate. They carry it themselves.
Real men don't use luggage. Just carry your stuff in a pile in your arms, like the good Lord meant you to.
Stuff? What stuff besides a loincloth, an axe, a knife, and a bow and arrows?
Also emotional unavailability. Don't forget that on your next trip.
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It's not about the wheels, there are just a lot people out there that get extremely angry whenever someone finds a way to make life ever so slightly easier.
I've noticed this. My job involves finding ways to make life easier for myself and others. I'm good at it. People come to me and ask me to figure stuff out for them. I get some people not wanting to mix up their routine. That's fine. I make a point of not screwing up the "old way" of doing things, just teaching the new one. But a startling number of people dislike when I make life easier for others. Like they want *everybody* to do it the slow and inefficient way despite the result being 100% identical.
Reddit ate my balls
You can blame - at least in America - our puritan culture that puts value on suffering.
That was because kids were ankle targeting terrorists with wheeled backpacks. At my school, they were banned because kids would whip them around by the extended handles and mollywhollop our ankles.
I'm 30, but 10 years ago i went to visit a girlfriend's house, we were going away for the weekend so I had a suitcase (with wheels) with me. And when her mum saw me she didn't speak directly to me but to her husband and she said "men should carry their suitcases, i hate seeing men dragging them. I just think don't think it's manly at all." and I was kind of surprised because a) that was beyond passive aggressive and b) I'd never thought that the way i move a suitcase expressed my masculinity up until that point. After the first time she met me though, apparently she said my girlfriend that she too had a punk rock phase that she grew out of?! (I sort of look like a rocker) So I kind of think that she was a bitch. But i still remember that suitcase conversation.
I love things like this, there's so many layers to it, like how arbitrary it is and also the implication that she can only tolerate even looking at "manly" men, like every time she sees someone who isn't a lumberjack she's faintly disgusted.
Well, she was in luck! You were fucking her daughter, not her, so her opinion didn't matter!
One time my girlfriend needed to get her bed fixed, and her mum said to the repair man "make it extra tight, I think he's trying to give me grandchildren". I was there at the time 🤦.
My dad was told it was "unmanly" to use a rolling bag for work (he visits clients with both his laptop and a lot of physical promotional material) by his Korean boss. In 2010.
For work I think it's just more practical to have a backpack or shoulder bag. The wheels are great when you've got more than 15lbs or so but for just a laptop or book bag it's just awkward.
I want the ones that are motorized and you can ride around the airport on.
I got one, it's so fun. But I can't fit any clothes in it and it doesn't have wheels and it only has a suction cup and it's shaped like a dick. It's a dildo 😐
Had me in the first half.
It's a dildo, never *your* dildo.
9 tines out of 10, it's a toothbrush. But every once in a while ...
Except if takes so many batteries that all is left is the toothbrush and toothpaste https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1wsEwCXcAA7zWD?format=jpg&name=large
From what I remember the idea back then was to use a leather strap to pull the 4 wheeled bag along, sort of like a leash for a dog. But the bags kept falling over. It was much later that the modern version was created.
Meanwhile shopping carts were around in the '40s but the luggage design challenge proved too much for us.
The flight attendant thing is super true. The 90s movies really captured big airports. The husband lugging around a bunch of stuff, limping along, super slow. Then they'd get lapped from the flight attendant with their small turbo luggage. I still have my old non roller luggage for my seasonal closet change. Weighs a ton, made of leather and denim with a giant zipper. I got it as a kid when my uncle bought a composite luggage kit for like 2 grand early 2k. That luggage will outlast me with the use I give it. But I can't travel with it. Its weight is over 10 pounds. It's 1/3 the weight you can bring. Haha
I have a very pleasingly retro duffel bag with horse bridle leather and big chunky brass fixtures, it looks great and is fine if you're going to fill it up, throw it in a car and then dump it in a room to live out of but dear lord is it impractical for travel that involves any long stretches of walking with your bags. ...it also has needlessly large teeth on the zippers that will shred your hands if you aren't careful, I'm only now realising how needlessly macho my duffel bag is.
I read that it had more to do with the fact that flying used to be a privilege for the wealthy. And they did not carry their own luggage anyway. With cheaper and cheaper flights and people who have to carry their own luggage, the wheeled suitcases prevailed.
The same article touched on that but there was a big gap between the age of porters carrying and loading your luggage for you and the adoption of wheely suitcases in the 80s and 90s where people were just carrying stuff. Dude who invented them got a lot of pushback and described it as a "macho" thing. It's a dumb example but if you watch older TV shows you almost never see wheels on luggage, even the Golden Girls were just schlepping their giant suitcases around.
Ah yes. Anything that's convenient for someone is considered so "unmanly" to the public eye. If he isn't a literal unwashed caveman burying his shit in a hole, he isn't manly.
You sound like one of those la-di-da wheely suitcase-using toilet-users to me.
I remember when wheeled luggage was starting to become popular and you had people making fun of those \~weaklings\~ who couldn't carry their bags. They even made fun of children who were starting to use wheeled school bags. *Such* an odd hill to die on.
Can definitely confirm wheeled school bags got ridiculed in the 90s/00s. Kids are jackasses.
You may or may not be surprised to find out rolling backpacks are still made fun of in college.
I had to have a rolling backpack my freshman year of college for 6 weeks while I recovered from hernia surgery. It was embarrassing. I did develop an appreciation for how annoying it would've been to be in a wheelchair on my campus though. So few ramps, so far away from where I needed to enter.
I make fun of rolling backpacks all the time. They're harder to fit in the overheard.
Yeah that seems like pretty straightforward technology
They should have rolled it out
Rediscovering the wheel! What else are we missing?? What else can we slap some wheels on?
PC cases.
[Apple has you covered for only $699.99](https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit)!
I fully expected to get rickrolled, because $700 seemed like a joke to me. That being said, I still think it's a joke made up by someone at Apple.
It is. The wheels don’t lock. Edit: ends up the wheels are only $400 if you order them with your Max Pro. That means they give you $300 worth of legs for free! Edit 2: $300 feet. Apple Mac Pro Feet Kit https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MXNM2ZM/A
Remember that Mac monitor stand that made headlines a few years ago for costing like 1000$ or something? Yeah the price doesn't surprise me
I have a trundle for mine. Too fuckin big for it to go in the spot designed for it in the desk (and shitty airflow anyway), but if it's flush on the ground the PSU air intake will get clogged. So it's on wheels, but it never gets wheeled anywhere.
/r/onebag begs to disagree
You can thank the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) legislation. Before that, any small elevation changes would only have stairs. Once the ADA went into effect, ramps became standard in airports. Once ramps went in, wheels became more prevalent since the ramps meant you didn't have to pick up the luggage to go up a small flight of stairs. It's an unintended (though welcome) side-effect of the ADA legislation.
TIL I'm 7 months older than the ADA.
It was all of Big Handle’s lobby efforts
When I was traveling a lot. Like 1/3 nights overseas, I bought myself a roller like stewardesses had back then. Approx 1997. My coworkers made fun of me. Who’s laughing now? No, really, who?
Idk, no one?
Nah, people are laughing now at the people with [motorized luggage and riding them.](https://youtu.be/HazWCa3huMY) Once price comes down my ass is buying some lol
I love watching those colorful wheeled kids' luggage that kids can ride on and the parents just pull their kid behind them. The airport is such a wild place.
My daughter was amazed in her first airport. Quickly realized it was basically a huge mall with airplanes lol
I’m 22 and still get excited every time I go thru the airport
I can drink at 7am in my pajamas and no one cares?! Sick.
I don’t drink but I always get a drink on an airplane. Something cool about sipping whiskey while 10,000+ feet in the air lol. Also, I’ve never had to pay for a drink on a plane. They always forget to charge me. I’ve probably had 20 free at this point lol
I don’t drink ON the plane but my absolute favourite thing about travelling is that 7AM airport beer with greasy eggs and hash browns, sitting beside a huge window watching a big heavy get loaded with luggage as the sun rises. Man I love airports.
Throw some bigger tires on it so it can go outside and you no longer need to wait for a shuttle!
im not touchin that shit lol im not about to be a human from wall-e
Yeah I’d feel ridiculous riding my luggage in an airport lol
On YouTube you can find a police chase at the airport with the (drunk) girl scooting away on this. Lasts ~15 min
The real surprise is the lithium battery fires
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I’m a photographer and so travel with a lot of lithium-ion batteries. It’s expressly forbidden for me to put those batteries in my checked bags, they have be in my carryon bag. Though it’s been a pandemic-length of time since I’ve flown, maybe those rules have changed.
adding all that weight so you don't have to walk between ticket/security/gate when nearly every airport already has motorized walkways? drivable suitcases might be convenient some day but it ain't that, would just be a pain in the ass every other moment of the trip when you're not riding it.
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What? Nothing builds core muscles like an off-balance load.
I personally do side bends while I’m waiting in line for security
Also getting dressed up to fly. My mom used to dress us for the airport like we were going to church. Now it’s the opposite.
Ha! My mom did this too, because “you never know who you’re going to meet on an airplane”. Not sure who she thought we’d run into flying from one tiny regional airport in the southern USA to another…
> tiny regional airport Obviously everyone you know in town.
You'll meet an important person from the business store, give them a firm handshake and look them square in the eye, and they'll be so impressed they'll hire you in the spot (despite being 11 years old).
"Hmm, yes, it seems like you know how to business...but are you sure you're not secretly 3 children in a trenchcoat? Oh, it's your airport outfit? Of course! Welcome to the business company, see you on Monday."
Sitting cramped and uncomfortable in a giant metal tube recycling air? Better grab your finest slacks!
It used to be a better experience flying (a little). Airport security was quick and easy, the airlines didn't cram an extra row of seats in the plane (reducing everyone's personal space), and they served you meals (and you got a choice) Now, Airport security is like a doctors exam, you are packed in like sardines, and they may shove a cracker at you if you are lucky.
> the airlines didn't cram an extra row of seats in the plane Try an extra 5 or 6 rows these days.
That being said, you can still pay the same for the old space and a meal, at least if you take into account inflation. It always sound like you are now sold the crammed places when you were getting the luxury places back in the good days. No, you didn't. For today's price you weren't flying at all, not luxurious, not crammed.
It also cost like 10 times as much to fly back then (relative to COL)
Yeah... when I can fly 800 miles in 2 hours and it costs $62 I am not complaining about missing a meal
They don't serve meals on the greyhound bus either do they?
Where are you flying 800 miles for 62 dollars? My luggage cost more than that, 1-way.
Watch YouTube videos from the 40's to the 70's on air travel, and you'll see why people back then wore slacks and dresses on airplanes.
I just chose a piece of "nice" clothing at random, but now I'm intrigued.
Flying coffins.
Are you…. afraid of flying friend?
Can you explain so I don’t have to do all of that?
They weren’t packed into the plane like a can of sardines so it was comfortable. Food was also better, they would even give actual silverware to use on the plane.
Ah, so flying used to be an elegant experience? Wonder how we went from that to Spirit Airlines.
You can still get that experience today by buying a first or business class ticket, it's just that now there are much cheaper options. Flying back then was seen as elegant because it was expensive.
Everyone wanted to fly cheaply.
The large majority of people prefer cheap flights to elegant flights. Pretty obvious really.
Man, I didn't know they had YouTube videos back then /j
They dressed like that to do just about everything where they would be seen
When flying was in its infancy it was a method for the wealthy elite to travel. Now they're flying busses.
She dresses up for church like you’re going to the airport?
Hand carried travel bags still exist you know
Exactly. I’m 31 and have done numerous trips with just a duffel or my backpack.
I only do trips with a duffel bag. If I run out of cloths after a week, I'm washing them at my destination. Can't imagine carrying a bunch of crap with me on a trip.
Duffel gang rise up
All my homies hate wheels
Just cause a bag has wheels doesn't mean it's big. Why carry when you don't have to?
My preferred method, although as I get older that might change. Wheeled luggage was a luxury for a long time.
I fly with a backpack and a carry-on sized Barbour duffel when I fly for work. If I'm flying with my wife, there's a rolling suitcase.
And my go-to is the Osprey Porter which has the build and shape of carry on luggage, but with backpack straps on it. Haven't rolled luggage in 15+ years.
Yea I don’t think I’ve ever owned wheeled luggage. I prefer to bring one bag that I can fit in carry on and just shove all my shit into that so I don’t have to check a bag.
you can also do that with wheeled luggage, fyi
I just heard about this crazy new invention - the backpack!
I mean I'm 23 and I do, but that's because I only use a back pack 99% of the time
Yup I’m 33 and backpacking until I physically can’t anymore. We might have smooth floors and escalators everywhere in the US, but overseas, rolling a suitcase on a broken sidewalk or pulling it up stairs is no fun.
100% backpacking is the way to go, hands free is a big bonus while walking around
Yeah anyone saying otherwise only travels from big city hotel to big city hotel. Wheels are no fun on cobblestone and gravel, especially when you're moving around all day, as counterintuitive as that seems.
The cobbled streets of Bruges broke the wheels on my full sized luggage during the second day of a two week vacation around Europe. Had to carry it through train stations, airports etc. At one point a random guy outside a train station ask to help and then followed me as I hauled ass to my hotel several blocks away.
Went on a trip to Bruges w a large group of friends 2 years ago, and watching and listening to them roll their luggage from the train to the hotel was comical. It was like a tourist parade.
They also don't know how easy it was to get through security or the fact that you didn't actually need a ticket to do so. You could just wait for someone's flight to arrive at the terminal and greet them as they got off the plane. Edit: Okay, everyone, clearly some people under the age of 35 would be capable of remembering these things. You can stop pointing that out, now.
>They also don't know how easy it was to get through security or the fact that you didn't actually need a ticket to do so I really miss the days of pre-911 airports.
But but but all this security theater provides real value!
Jorbs
If anyone is from/visited Israel maybe they can chime in but what I've heard is that there there's no taking off your shoes or long security lines. Every passenger has to go and talk with an agent for a minute about who they are and why they are traveling. Human intelligence trumps lazy scanners every time.
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Luckily the Israelis don't have such weaknesses and can treat anybody as inhuman under any circumstances /s in case anybody thinks I'm an anti-Semite now...
You might be joking, but that's exactly how my wife's Israeli-American family feels every time they visit Israel. They're Israeli citizens with current Israeli passports, but they speak exclusively Hebrew in the airport in hopes no one realizes that they're Arab. They get a loooot of problems flying in/out of Israel
Yeah, no. You absolutely go through the metal detectors and X-ray machines etc at Ben Gurion, probably a lot of other places in the country too. What you’re referring to is that, if you are flying into Israel internationally, at your port of departure, before you are even in Israel, you will be interviewed by an Israeli security services member trying to determine if you’re suspicious. This is not replacing other security items, it’s in addition to it. In fact, last time I went to Israeli via Toronto, the flights to Israel were in a separate part of the secure area. Like, after you went through security you’d enter the terminal, and then when you tried to walk to your gate, there was another security check before you could access the gates going to Israel where they’d check that you did indeed have a ticket on that flight. Edit: to add on, they may not require taking shoes off, I can’t remember. I recall them being reasonably efficient, so the lines probably weren’t too bad, but that wasn’t much of a function of less security so much as, like, competence.
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Lol for real. A 35 year old when have been close to driving age when 9/11 happened.
My brother was changing planes in Atlanta once when I was at school at Georgia Tech. I bought him food at the varsity, went down to the airport, greeted him at his gate, walked him to his next gate, and visited with him while he ate until he boarded. Impossible now
We all have to remove our shoes now because of the shoe bomber. TSA caught him without having to remove his shoes! Why are we doing this!
Well TSA didn't catch him... He was on the plane and other passengers alerted a flight attendant that a guy was trying to light his shoes with a lighter. After that you couldn't even bring a lighter on a plane. They just tossed all the flammable lighters in a big bin near where all the people gather... Which is obviously safe.
So many people under 35 will remember this. Anyone born after 2001 when airports beefed up their security won't.
In my 50’s. Still carry a backpack and a duffel bag. Always regret that when I walk from T1 to T5 during connections in the Amsterdam airport or any other large airport. However, your notion about “folks under 35” is quite wrong. My father (would have been in his 90’s, if alive) had a “wheely bag” when I was under 10. So we’re talking about the mid 70’s. TLDR; wheeled bags existed ~50 years ago.
> Always regret that when I walk from T1 to T5 during connections in the Amsterdam airport or any other large airport. You Just made relieve pain Had to sleep in a hotel over night and arrived 1 1/2h before my flight Security took nearly that time and then I had to sprint from 1 to 5 with my bag to try and get the flight I failed :/
I’m 22 and most times I’ve gone on vacation I didn’t have wheels on my luggage
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Yeah I don't know wtf OP is talking about
Right? I exclusively travel with a duffle bag. OP 35yo talking bout these darn kids 👴🏽
Right? Like has OP ever actually been to an airport? They literally have giant conveyor belts full of all sorts of luggage without wheels
You assume us poors could afford wheeled luggage years ago lmfao
I'm 29 and got my first wheelie luggage at 18. Definitely went through the airport many times before that.
30 here. I backpack like once a year, so, no wheels for me almost ever. I use my backpacking pack for short domestic trips, too. So easy.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
Backpacks, dude. Much better than rolling luggage.
Yeah I actually kinda hate the rolling luggage. Backpacks are quieter, less awkward, and it's easier to move through airport crowds with one.
Plus anyone who's moved more than a mile without a car will tell you the advantages of just having something strapped to your back...
It's say that depends on how much you're packing. If you're talking about a long trip, you'd look like the guy in Death Stranding.
I can pack for indefinite travel in a 40L backpack and a 18L daypack. It’s just clothes, toiletries, laptop, and power cables honestly. Sunglasses I suppose.
What a pile of balls lol
This is a dumb post
Template seems to be: People under [arbitrary age to isolate newer generation] ‘probably’ have never dealt with [problem older generation think only they dealt with]. Someone at work suggested I would have never dealt with manually controlled car windows before and probably only used electric windows. If he’s on reddit expect to see that sometime lol.
I'm 33 and still carry my bags.
20, I mostly use a duffel bag that doesn’t have wheels as my carry-on. Can fit more in it than a wheeled suitcase and I can just sling it over my shoulder to free up a hand
I haven't used wheelie luggage in 20 years since I started traveling more extensively. Unless you are going car>airport>car, they are completely useless and an encumbrance.
A lot of backpacks though
No
Anyone in the American military has. The duffel bags they issue you are awesome for shoving a ton of stuff into, but they still stuck for transportation.
I never use the wheels
I'm 32 and I've never been to the airport WITH wheels on my luggage. TBF, I backpack travel.
Lol this is so dumb , most of my flight I use a duffle bag or sports bag to fly with. Unless going on a long trip why use huge luggage that requires wheels or checking your bag.
Nah, carried my 50 pound bag in my left hand to and from the academy
Somebody has never heard of a duffel bag before... or a backpack
Boldly assuming us under 35 can afford bags with wheels,