I prefer handheld bags. I do not like shoulder bags because they wrinkle my blouses. I hate ending up with one wrinkled shoulder and one neatly pressed!
If you have a shoulder bag, when paying for something you can remove your wallet and put the bag back on your shoulder. With a speedy, you hafta plop that sucker up on the counter for people to ogle while you dig thru your wallet. And everytime I did, someone commented how they loved my bag. (Cerises speedy- new to me THIS WEEK so of course I was loving the compliments on my bag!). Toting a speedy comes with a different attitude and feeling than a LV shoulder bag for me personally.