Yes, it's best to carry a reusable grocery or shopping bag. They are environmentally friendly, stylish in this era and a way to feel superior to others who may have forgotten their bag. Or who made a last minute, unanticipated stop.
Like Daisy.
Daisy doesn't always have a cloth shopping bag, and she's getting a little sick of those looking down at her from their moral high ground:
I was at the store the other night and I had four bottles of wine,
two bags of goldfish, cookies and a piece of fruit or two. (Yes, I am
lying about the fruit.) I plopped it all down on the counter and paid.
The cashier returned my change and then just stood there. I put my
change back in my wallet and then also just stood there. "Oh," he
finally asked. "Do you need a bag?"
No, douchebag. I was planning on juggling my groceries while chewing
gum and singing The Star-Spangled Banner, all the while balancing on a
pair of glow-in-the-dark stilts and doing my multiplication tables. Yes, I need a bag.
And this has become par for the course. No one just puts your
groceries into a paper sack anymore. You have to ask for one or be
offered one. They just assume, 100% incorrectly in my case, that I'm
willing to scoop everything up between my arms and walk four blocks
while people judge me for eating wine and cookies for dinner. And fine,
it's actually only a block from the store to my house, but that makes
it sound like I should make do without a bag and pretty much ruins my
entire point.
Her post goes on, and the best part is saved for last. What happens when Daisy's CEO runs into her at Whole Foods, and she doesn't have her own bag?
It's hilarious (maybe not for Daisy), but you have to
read the rest at her place.
[Photo by thisparticulargreg]
