01.08.2008 - Groceries on foot

[ampersand]

Backpack, Greg. Backpack.

[adciv]

Come on, that's only 19lb. That's light. Most guys on the forum should be able to carry 40lb easy.

Link for good packs

[Scotty]

they're only 18 packs by the looks of it, try carrying a 24 pack of coke in one hand and a 5lb sack of potatoes, a bag of milk (4L), 3 lbs of deli meats, and a 4 litre tub of ice cream in the other hand 5 blocks home, my arms felt like they would fall off the last time i did that

[Plutokiss]

That makes me curious: Is Greg kinda built like a twig like I am (kinda tall but really thin)? I wouldn't say that my arms "burst with the fire of a thousand suns" when I carry two cases of Pepsi like that for extended periods of time but it may very well come close.

[Teranfirbt]

Is Greg kinda built like a twig like I am (kinda tall but really thin)?

Having met Greg in person...
No.

[zaitcev]

I'm surprised nobody bragged about the kit they had to carry back in the day, and yes a pack is the solution. Carrying anything beyond 10 or 12kg in a grocery bag is pure insanity though.

But more importantly, your wife quickly starts reading your mind.

[Kovac]

If I hadnt changed classes way back in High School I wouldnt know most of my friends today.
It was like a huge chain of friends linking from those original friends at school.
Actually I suspect that I would have no friends at all throughout High School and it would have been really depressing o_O

btw, that is a hell of a lot of pepsi.

I imagine that kind of weight dosent seem like much at first, but about half way home you really start to feel it.

[Mae Dean]

It's not even really that much weight... it's not that your arms hurt as much as your fingers and wrist begin to hurt.

[Springy]

Up here grocery stores sell these awesome canvas bags for 99 cents. They hold more than a standard plastic bag and since the handles are fabric they don't dig in so much. Not so useful for Pepsi cans, but what about buying Pepsi in 2L (uhhh, a gallon?) sized plastic bottles?

[Kovac]

All supermarkets here sell those now.
And if you don't use them everyone glares at you and looks down on you with contempt for ruining our clean green country.

[Plutokiss]

It's not even really that much weight... it's not that your arms hurt as much as your fingers and wrist begin to hurt.

That's so true. I always try to find some way to avoid that kind of pain though; it tends to be some crazy method although I can't think of any off the top of my head other than lining a bunch of grocery bags up your arm to avoid actually using your fingers.

[StruckingFuggle]

It's not even really that much weight... it's not that your arms hurt as much as your fingers and wrist begin to hurt.

Twist the bags so you hold them more like a sword than hanging them off your fingers, and put your hands on your shoulders so the bags hang behind your bag. Granted, that's more for bags than boxes, but you could double-bag the cases, or something?

(It's how I carry a four or five bags of groceries an arm on both arms, works for me)

[BigGunn]

...and put your hands on your shoulders so the bags hang behind your bag....

That sounds extremely painful.

[Roundtop]

2L = 0.5Gal.

Or more specifically, 3.8L = 1 Gallon, so a 4L jug of milk is roughly a gallon jug of milk.

Back in my day....

The worst that happenned to me was when I was in japan on a vacation... I was in Akihabara and stopped by Gamers the first thing.... I walked out of there with about $300 of Gundam model kits... in a big brown paper bag. My wife walked out with about $300 of collectable cards.

It was all good walking around the rest of the area until it started to rain.... paper bag + rain = Teh Sux.

[Gowerlypuff]

You Americans and your silly gallons.

It's not so much the weight that gets me, it's the having to carry it for a while. It seems fine at first, but 20 minutes walk later you feel like you want to die.