Shower bags and life
Feb. 26th, 2011 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99When I left for college, my mother made me a shower bag from an old sheet, as we knew I'd be sharing a bathroom with ~15 other women. It had many pockets and I probably could have fit a flexible 5 year old human in it.
Sometime between undergrad and grad school Mom replaced it with a shower bag from LL Bean. It resembles their current models in overall shape, though I'm convinced that mine is better and sleeker. Black on the outside, green on the inside.... It was like a tardis -- it fit amazing amounts of STUFF with no visible effort. I loved it and gave it hard use for at least 15 years. It still looks new.
Then in Aug 2006 there came the Terrible Ban on All Travel Liquids. That flight home from Sydney was uncomfortable...
With my tiny allowed liquids forced into a plastic bag, the LL Bean bag takes up more space than its contents merit.... *wistful sigh*
So I bought a new Eagle Creek shower bag to handle my separated-liquid lifestyle. It cannot handle my liquids when I take a road trip. I dislike it, but it neatly fits in next to the packing cubes for my carry-on-only week long business trips. It falls over on bathroom counters. It has no magic tardis-like abilities.
Ah to have found true shower bag love and be forced to put it aside...
I'm sure there is a life philosophy in here somewhere. Life changes and becomes more uncomfortable? As we advance, we get more cramped? Change is bad? Avoid other continents as the world will develop new stupid rules?
Sometime between undergrad and grad school Mom replaced it with a shower bag from LL Bean. It resembles their current models in overall shape, though I'm convinced that mine is better and sleeker. Black on the outside, green on the inside.... It was like a tardis -- it fit amazing amounts of STUFF with no visible effort. I loved it and gave it hard use for at least 15 years. It still looks new.
Then in Aug 2006 there came the Terrible Ban on All Travel Liquids. That flight home from Sydney was uncomfortable...
With my tiny allowed liquids forced into a plastic bag, the LL Bean bag takes up more space than its contents merit.... *wistful sigh*
So I bought a new Eagle Creek shower bag to handle my separated-liquid lifestyle. It cannot handle my liquids when I take a road trip. I dislike it, but it neatly fits in next to the packing cubes for my carry-on-only week long business trips. It falls over on bathroom counters. It has no magic tardis-like abilities.
Ah to have found true shower bag love and be forced to put it aside...
I'm sure there is a life philosophy in here somewhere. Life changes and becomes more uncomfortable? As we advance, we get more cramped? Change is bad? Avoid other continents as the world will develop new stupid rules?
