I’ve been hearing about these shopping bags everywhere, it seems, and they are just so cute. I can just see myself strutting my stuff down at The Fresh Market, my adorable little shopping bag smartly looped over my shoulder. Oh yes.
But let’s fast-forward to the interesting part, shall we? The part where I get to the checkout and the bagger says “paper or plastic?” and I say “Neither. I have my own special bags that I want you to use, please.” Or actually, I stammer it out. And I feel stupid and guilty and up-on-my-high-horse while the poor bagger has to figure out how to hold my bag that’s two times bigger than its evil, earth-killing plastic cousin with one hand and actually put the groceries in with the other.
And then…when he’s filled up the first bag, I dole out whichever fashionable bag is next in my handy-dandy pouch. “Oh, she’s got a pouch of these things! Well isn’t that great for the environment!” he’s thinking, right? Umm…no. Actually, he’s thinking “Can we say ‘high-maintenance’?”. Of course, this one doesn’t fit onto his little bag-holder either, so he clumsily packs it full. And we could do this all day! What fun!
So I probably won’t get the bags. Nope, I just don’t think I could pull it off without some major therapy afterward. They’d probably end up stashed in the floor of my car while my usual plastic bags get ready for their future life as diaper-stashers. (Wow. Disposable diapers AND plastic bags. My environmental footprint is probably be larger than Bigfoot’s!)
Stumble it!
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