color me crazy...

[tommygirl]

I really love when I bring up something environmental and people give me weird looks. I stopped at the supermarket on my way into work and I use the canvas reuseable bags. I picked another one up.

Cashier: So you want to use these instead?
Me: that's the point of them
Cashier: oh... (stares at me) okay then...

First, they sell the canvas bags right there in the supermarket. I can't be the first to actually USE them. Second, you'd think I was Ed Begley Jr. talking about riding a stationary bicycle to generate enough energy to toast my bread with the way this cashier was looking at me. Good Lord. It's a canvas bag not a solar-paneled car. It's something small that I can do so that trees don't have to die for the paper kind and so landfills don't have to be further overrun with plastic.

And this isn't everyone. It's mostly my mother who claims I'm a hippy zealot because I get mad at people who have to light up their whole house for Christmas (energy crisis should not mean making your house visible from Mars - and it's ugly) and yell at her all the time about how much water/energy/etc she wastes.


**

thank the lord it's friday. Today's holiday drabble will be coming this afternoon. right now I'm doing evil updates to my work website that take forever and a day. Argh. Thank god for dreamweaver is all I have to say.

Comments

[moonstone1220.livejournal.com]

Well speaking as a cashier and some one how uses the tote bags also . she was just plain Dumb !!! good for you and you should have told her off. I would have !