Some students carry pencils, while others have their whole house carried with them. Others take a 6-inch metal cylinder. Backpacks aren’t just for notebooks and pens; they carry straight up chaos. Sometimes it looks like we are going through a landfill. This is for all the people who think their bag is disgusting, because I promise there is worse, but this is also not to shame anyone. Many people struggle to organize their bags, especially after a long school day. I hope many people can relate to this.
Some of the unusual items I’ve found in people’s bags include toe socks, chopsticks, the wrong car keys, a mini hand, a tutu, mini colorful ducks, and a JBL speaker. The JBL speaker isn’t just a speaker; it has a pretty amusing story.
During Ehven Albert’s freshman year, he placed a high-
powered, ultra-bass-boosting JBL speaker at the bottom of his bag. He revelled in blaring music in the gym locker rooms. After a few weeks in school, he noticed that he didn’t have to put his phone in the phone home. He thought of a brilliant, but rebellious idea.
“I knew it was going to be funny, so I connected my phone to the speaker, and now I just had to find the perfect thing to play. I started with a video of silence, but every 5 minutes, a random phone notification went off. And this was exactly what I hoped for. The first five minutes were brutal, waiting for the first sound was like waiting at the cash register and your mom forgot the onions,” said Ehven Albert, a current sophomore
He realized that it wasn’t as funny as he had pictured because it looked like he had forgotten to turn off his phone, and the sound was coming right from his bag, next to him.
“So I had to find a solution, and hid my bag around the room. And when the next day came, I wasted no time; I hid my bag on the top shelf of a slanted bookshelf, so it slid back and no one could see it. I wanted to make it a little louder this time, so I went with the classics: metal pipes hitting the floor,” said Ehven.
Confusion hit everyone, and nobody suspected him of being behind this or anyone. Most people probably assumed that there was construction. So Ehven decided to turn up the volume even louder and played a continuous loop of just madness and pure evil to the students’ ears that it completely drowned out the side conversations and even the teacher.
“I could see the visible panic on my teachers face, the classroom started to fall apart people covered their ears in hope the sound would stop, others were laughing the entire time, and well the teacher couldn’t find where the sound was coming from, so they called custodial, and this had already gone way farther than I expected it too. But I wanted to push it, so I turned it up to the max when she got on the phone, and the second custodial got in the room, I turned it off, it was complete silence,” said Ehven.
His math teacher accepted it like it was nothing, and even started and continued teaching. Ehven did for the last time, he unpaused it, and it startled everyone that it happened once again. To make him seem less like a suspect, more like a victim of this whole insanity. He jumped up on his desk and said, “I think it might be coming from the ceiling.”
So he peeked up into the false ceiling, and clearly nothing was there. His math teacher took a final sigh and fully accepted this chaos (sometimes a secret skill of being a teacher).
“Now it was time. I started to play the loudest music I possibly could. I couldn’t have chosen any better because as soon as a couple girls realized what the song actually was the started to sing along with it and dance. Eventually just about the whole room was in to the music. I turned my math class into a dance party, and the teacher didn’t care. In fact for the rest of the day they gave their classes a free day because they were so confused about what what and where the sound was coming from. And that’s how I threw a loop at my math teacher with a JBL speaker and girls with some good music taste,” said Ehven.
