Comments on: Double Bagging http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/ Challenge The Status Quo Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:06 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Damian http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-20772 Damian Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:46:51 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/#comment-20772 I use re-useable grocery bags (like Kathy, when I remember), and I find that not only are they stronger than plastic, but they're also bigger, so I can load them up and carry fewer bags. Of course, when I can help it, I refuse bags altogether (like this afternoon, when all I wanted was some cold medicine and a Mt. Dew). Get some funny looks from time to time, but I prefer that to contributing to the utter wastefulness of it all (that, and I get to act smug about it on the Internet!). Oh, Steven... I use re-useable grocery bags (like Kathy, when I remember), and I find that not only are they stronger than plastic, but they’re also bigger, so I can load them up and carry fewer bags.

Of course, when I can help it, I refuse bags altogether (like this afternoon, when all I wanted was some cold medicine and a Mt. Dew). Get some funny looks from time to time, but I prefer that to contributing to the utter wastefulness of it all (that, and I get to act smug about it on the Internet!).

Oh, Steven…

]]> By: Kathy http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-20684 Kathy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:30:28 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/#comment-20684 How about getting some of those new "green" bags that you reuse. I have three for a while now, but have not remembered to take them along to the store with me yet. How about getting some of those new “green” bags that you reuse. I have three for a while now, but have not remembered to take them along to the store with me yet.

]]> By: Debbie http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-10550 Debbie Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:11:32 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/#comment-10550 My favorite is when they ask, "Paper or plastic?" and I answer paper because it's one of the few grocery stores that have handles on the paper bag. So they bag in paper - and then <i><b>put the paper bag in a plastic one</b></i>. Idiocy is avoidable. My favorite is when they ask, “Paper or plastic?” and I answer paper because it’s one of the few grocery stores that have handles on the paper bag. So they bag in paper – and then put the paper bag in a plastic one. Idiocy is avoidable.

]]> By: Todd http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-10542 Todd Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:54:35 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/#comment-10542 See how difficult it is to properly communicate? One simple grocery-store exchange yields at least two possible interpretations. It's a wonder any of us communicate at all. See how difficult it is to properly communicate? One simple grocery-store exchange yields at least two possible interpretations. It’s a wonder any of us communicate at all.

]]> By: Rick http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-10540 Rick Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:14:03 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/02/double-bagging/#comment-10540 Well, you could look at this two ways. By "one bag", may have thought "one convenient package in which to take this stuff home". He may have just been reinforcing a heavier-than-normal parcel. But perhaps you meant "a single, solitary bag so as to not promote waste". I notice our local Safeway doing a lot of double bagging, and perhaps to cut down on the heavy bags falling through the middle out in the parking lot. I quit going to our local Wal-Mart a while back because an ASSISTANT MANAGER of the place threw two cans of chili on top of a loaf of bread. It didn't even resemble bread by the time I got home. Well, you could look at this two ways. By “one bag”, may have thought “one convenient package in which to take this stuff home”. He may have just been reinforcing a heavier-than-normal parcel. But perhaps you meant “a single, solitary bag so as to not promote waste”. I notice our local Safeway doing a lot of double bagging, and perhaps to cut down on the heavy bags falling through the middle out in the parking lot.

I quit going to our local Wal-Mart a while back because an ASSISTANT MANAGER of the place threw two cans of chili on top of a loaf of bread. It didn’t even resemble bread by the time I got home.

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