I was walking by the front of the school today and I saw this couple. It was cute and they were holding hands and giggling and stuff, until the guy tried putting his arm around the girl’s waist. The girl had a satchel/hipster/purse/messenger bag on the side he was reaching for. So he’s reaching over with like an ear-to-ear grin across his face because because I guess he was expecting to get some PDA or something, but then the strap on her bag gets in between his hand and her waist. Here’s where the funny shit starts. The guy pulls his hand back and then in between the strap and her waist. He accidentally knocks the strap aside and her bag falls off her shoulder and the girl gives him a major “WTF ಠ_ಠ” face. I ended up walking behind them for the next 5 minutes and the romance and bubbliness completely died. She didn’t even look at him, and the guy got the point and just looked down and drooped the entire time.

Then I realized that backpacks, even if they aren’t purse bags or whatever, are major cockblocks in general. Have you tried putting your arm around someone with a backpack on? Don’t even think about slipping your arm in through the backpack because then you feel the person’s back perspiration and then the moment is over. I’d love to see someone trying to put their arm around a person with a huge-ass backpack, you know, the ones that probably weigh more than the person wearing them. The poor fellow would only get halfway around the backpack. :[