A Question

Does anyone else in the world loathe plastic grocery bags as much as I? I mean seriously. Whose asinine idea was it to package groceries in bags that don’t stand up in the trunk, can’t keep my bread and eggs secure, and require 8 times more than the traditional (read: much-preferred) paper bags? Furthermore, I wonder if back in the day, bag-boys had to go to bag-boy school, where they would learn how to properly sort and pack groceries into bags. Plastic bags completely negate the need for thoughtful packaging of the groceries that I spend $150 on each week. Today, my groceries were packed in the most haphazard manner. It took about 25 bags, which promptly dumped all over my trunk on the way home. My bread got squished. In one bag was the 8-pound chicken I’m roasting for Sunday dinner, along with a brick of cheese. In another bag were the week’s supply of freshly-ground coffee...and garlic. HELLO!! In another bag, all by itself, was a package of cookies.

And did I forget to mention that I ASKED FOR PAPER?!

I don’t mean to gripe, but seriously. The only other person in the world who I know is tremendously bothered by the rise in use of plastic grocery bags is a 70-something former engineer who used to go to our church. Does this mean I’m getting old?