EARTH DAY...so let's discuss those achingly trendy environmentally-friendly grocery bags
They're just not practical. They're always promoted in a "one bag" way..."use THIS bag for your groceries!"...as if most people only buy one bag's worth of groceries. Yeah, single people in an urban area I can see having them...who WALK to get groceries. Lonely urban spinsters. NOT families. But you'd also have to THINK to bring these bags every time you go shopping...whether on foot OR in the car. Think AHEAD. Maybe even keep them permanently in your car...as Julia Roberts does, God bless her.
Now I'M single, and I think -- most aren't and don't -- but I don't own any earth-friendly grocery bags yet. I really think I need to get one, though. Add to how great and organized a human I am. PS, i'm not a spinster...or lonely. I'm well aware of the waste of plastic bags, but at least I re-use some of them for garbage pail bags. It really IS beginning to bother me every time I go to the supermarket and get all these plastic bags. By the way, HOW has it only recently dawned on the masses that our endless water bottle usage is killing Mother Earth? Yeah, I need to stop that, too. AND get back to TAP WATER!!!
But let's get to the MAIN reason this isn't practical. When you're ON these ungodly irritating supermarket lines, do you SEE how slowly 98% of the population moves? And this is WITH the plastic bags already there, on the handy racks, ready to receive your groceries. I've seen too many fatass fucks with a cart FULL of items. Do you really think they're gonna 1) whip about 12 earth-friendly bags out of their purse and then 2) somehow steadily set up each of them to be filled? Even if they DID carry 12 bags, it would be CHAOS as people scramble to figure out where to put their bags on the tiny food-filled counter, and how to keep them open and upright without the benefit of the plastic bag rack device. CHAOS. Adding to the misery, clerks couldn't now easily speed the process by assisting in the bagging without time-wasting "ma'am, would u like me to help you?" banter. Stores would also need to totally overhaul the layout of their checkout lines to accomodate The Brought-From-Home Earth-Friendly Bags. I just do NOT see a way Americans can carry this through. They're too lazy, too slow, and don't think. And let's throw in fat for good measure. Sorry, earth.
Now I'M single, and I think -- most aren't and don't -- but I don't own any earth-friendly grocery bags yet. I really think I need to get one, though. Add to how great and organized a human I am. PS, i'm not a spinster...or lonely. I'm well aware of the waste of plastic bags, but at least I re-use some of them for garbage pail bags. It really IS beginning to bother me every time I go to the supermarket and get all these plastic bags. By the way, HOW has it only recently dawned on the masses that our endless water bottle usage is killing Mother Earth? Yeah, I need to stop that, too. AND get back to TAP WATER!!!
But let's get to the MAIN reason this isn't practical. When you're ON these ungodly irritating supermarket lines, do you SEE how slowly 98% of the population moves? And this is WITH the plastic bags already there, on the handy racks, ready to receive your groceries. I've seen too many fatass fucks with a cart FULL of items. Do you really think they're gonna 1) whip about 12 earth-friendly bags out of their purse and then 2) somehow steadily set up each of them to be filled? Even if they DID carry 12 bags, it would be CHAOS as people scramble to figure out where to put their bags on the tiny food-filled counter, and how to keep them open and upright without the benefit of the plastic bag rack device. CHAOS. Adding to the misery, clerks couldn't now easily speed the process by assisting in the bagging without time-wasting "ma'am, would u like me to help you?" banter. Stores would also need to totally overhaul the layout of their checkout lines to accomodate The Brought-From-Home Earth-Friendly Bags. I just do NOT see a way Americans can carry this through. They're too lazy, too slow, and don't think. And let's throw in fat for good measure. Sorry, earth.
posted by Gregoire at 7:26 PM
1 Comments:
you're so funny. but you're right! totally unsustainable system.
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