While boarding the small airplane, I held up the line of people going to their seats as I tried to shove my impedimenta for my skiing trip into the small overhead bin.

As I bumbled down the hallway to the locker room carrying my impedimenta to join my new hockey team, I knew I did not make a good first impression.

The football managers of the local high school team were quickly dragging the impedimenta for the upcoming game down the school hallway toward the bus.

Several divas were having their assistants stumble to the makeshift dressing rooms with their impedimenta of dresses, makeup, curling irons and other hair accessories.

Tears flowed down the parents’ faces as their carried the impedimenta of all of their only child’s belongings up the four flights of stairs to her dorm room.