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Have you noticed the latest trend in "environmentally friendly" green efforts?
I have recently noticed the fabric bags at Walmart that say, "Paper or Plastic? NEITHER."
Now I have to admit...I have really been working to find ways to be more resourceful and less wasteful, so I thought this was a really clever idea...besides, I got tired of being bombarded by rogue walmart bags every time I opened a cabinet and immediately became assaulted by plastic bags.
THIS was the perfect solution!
So last week, I purchased 3 bags with my groceries. This week I went back and purchased 2 more.
I arrived at the check out stand and the woman asked me if I wanted paper or plastic...so I thought I would clever and say "NEITHER. I'd like 2 eco-bags."
I wish I had taken my phone out to take a photo of what happened next...no one believes me!
But the woman took 2 of the eco-bags folded them up and placed them in a PLASTIC bag! LOL!
I did not want to seem rude, so I tried to hide my confused look and took my plastic bags of groceries to my van where I tool the eco-bags out and re-loaded my groceries....and there I was STILL with these nuisances of plastic bags!! Some days you just cant win! LOL!
Dawn
4 comments:
How funny! Was she a 2004 Del Valle graduate? LOL!
~Shannon~
LOL....lol.....Wish I had not had a mouth full of coffee when I read this!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love - Mom
Dawn,
We got the same kink of reaction at Wal-mart. We started using bags last year before it was "cool" and they looked at us like we were psycho or something.
Jay
I had a similar experience at HEB. I had purchased my green bags previously, gave them to the checker first, who put them at the end of the counter.
I was too busy unloading groceries out of the cart to see what was happening on the other end. The checker tells me my total and then says, 'Oh did you want to use those?' There sat my folded bags neatly at the end of the counter, and all the groceries are in plastic in the cart.
::shakes head::
I had to laugh though. :D It'll take a while for it to catch on.
~ Holly
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