Today, as often is the case, I left NYC with considerably more stuff then I arrived with. I figure I’d buy a big duffle bag to bring everything back in. When I asked my brother in law where I could get a duffle bag, he asked “Big enough for a body?” Ha ha. Yes: precisely that big, I said.
Then at Iceberg Army Surplus, the sales lady joked that I must be buying it to transport a body. Ha ha. Actually, I need to transport a whole family in the duffle, I said.
Once I packed it full of gear and dragged it out to the street to catch a cab, I noticed many people looking from me to the bag uneasily.
I didn’t realized the duffle bag/corpse-transport meme was so widespread. My advice: if you do need to transport a stiff, use a footlocker.
And for the record, the duffle bag was full of clothes and a bunch of video gear. Not very gangsta, I admit.
(Note: background image by Flickr member vidiot)
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Justin Kownacki // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:32 pm
That joke may have played a bit better if some wacko in Canada hadn’t murdered and decapitated his Greyhound bus seatmate yesterday… Suddenly, between him and the guy shooting swimmers in the Great Lakes, the concept of needing a bag for bodies seems gruesomely practical.
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