r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jul 16 '26

My mp3 player does it too

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 16 '26

Mp3 players were banned in my elementary school 20 years ago lol. You couldn't take it out in class. But the bus rule is pretty crazy

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u/SlideHoon Jul 16 '26

I got in trouble many times with my Walkman.

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u/sipstea84 Jul 16 '26

Omg the old maneuver of putting your earphone cord up your sleeve and "resting your head" on your hand to hide the earbud.

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 Jul 16 '26

Kids today will never know the joy of thinking you’re the first genius to figure this out. Damn cordless headphones took all the ingenuity out of it.

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u/NoctisImperator Jul 16 '26

Had long hair in hs, ran the cord up my back under my shirt and my hair hid the earphones. It was great

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u/TwoThreeSierra Jul 16 '26

Yep! I did exactly this, and my ipod nano fit perfectly in the belt loop of my pants so the whole setup was concealed by my shirt and skater hair.

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 Jul 16 '26

Wow that's just sooo epic!!

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 Jul 16 '26

🥹😭THAT'S JUST EPICCCCC I HAVE SO MUCH HAIR I'LL HAVE TO TRY THAT LOLLLLLL........

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u/danceswithdangerr Jul 16 '26

Hahahah yep did this was well!!

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u/BigBadVudoo Jul 16 '26

I had completely forgotten about this! I tried it about half a dozen times I got caught every time eventually. Turns out it was not as smooth as I had imagined!

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u/screames520 Jul 16 '26

Dang I just said this haha. Almost word for word

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u/Conri_Gallowglass Jul 16 '26

I always wore the school hoodie. Cut a little hole in the back of the pocket and ran the cord up to the hood strings. Color matched earbuds to the hoodie.

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u/kacihall Jul 17 '26

I still have a hoodie (that ai got in college in 2007) that had a dedicated mp3 player pocket inside the main pouch, that has a button hole for threading your headphones through.

I wore it to work last winter and asked the two girls I work with that were born this millennia what they thought the pocket and the pass through were for. They were very confused, thought it must be for a phone but phones were NEVER that tiny. (According to them, at least. My old Nokia would've fit.)