This is my messenger bag. I wasn't able to use this bag for two months because I couldn't figure out how the strap works. This picture is of the strap in its current position - extended all the way (I'm a tall dude!). When I got it, the strap was on the exact other side, which meant it was at the shortest position possible. There are two major problems with this strap. The first is that the plastic doohickey doesn't have a lip for your thumb to go under so you can brace your hand against the strap like any decent backpack has (the lip also tells you which way the strap is supposed to go). That's minor, though - the reason I couldn't wear this bag for two months was because I struggled with the doohickey to move it maybe a half inch towards the end of the strap it was closest to - and that didn't make the strap any longer. The strap is perfectly symmetrical, and most doohickeys don't slide all the way across the other end of the strap, so I assumed once I budged the doohickey over towards the end, that was all I could extend it by. Am I pretty dumb? Yes. Did I only manage to fix the strap because I was explaining this to a friend of a friend, and she didn't even look twice before sliding the strap all the way over to the other side, making it fit me perfectly? Yes. Did she continue to make fun of me for not understanding how a strap works? Absolutely, yes. Am I blaming design?
Yes.
-Zach Alexander
Yes.
-Zach Alexander
1 comment:
All I have to say it it still sounds easier to figure out than those weird "sports" bags you see some people walking around with. You know, the feed bag with 6 cords that, when not closed, give you no reference as to how you actually use it.
On the upside, even if the strap was poorly designed, it still held your stuff and you could carry it to class like a running back, no?
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