Anyways, aside from sometimes puzzling packaging choices, there is the - let me stick that in a bag for you connundrum: You're at the check out counter with the following: a loaf of bread, margarine, a bottle of wine, some slices of cheese, a can of tuna fish, and a couple avocados. Didn't you know that every item on that list, except the margarine and can of tuna fish together, deserves its own plastic bag? Or at the produce store: two onions, a red pepper, two apples, an eggplant, and some grapes. Also clearly another opportune moment to give every single item its own bag, right? It drives me crazy.
So, I bring my reusable beat up shopping bag around and try to minimize the amount of bags used. Reactions? Complete and utter confusion. And better yet, people bag the margarine, the loaf of bread, the cheese, etc separately, and then stick it into my reusable bag. Thanks guys, that really helped.
So, that brings me to this (a comic called made by this woman, Kelly Vivanco. It's called "Patches" and I love it):
http://hingos.com/patches/index.php?pt=080327
It pretty much sums up the past year and a half of my life.
2 comments:
That is sheer craziness.
I bring my own bags to the grocery store too--again, met with confusion. The other day the bagger bagged (1) huge package of toilet paper (6 rolls) and (1) huge package of paper towels (4 rolls).... that was all I had. I can easily carry them under one arm, but, uh, thanks?
can't you take them out of the plastic bags and put them in your own bag and hand them back? i do this at the mexican grocery store near my house since they are almost as bad. granted, there is less cultural confusion going on there since this is detroit and not santiago.
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