i love this

last month, i bought reusable grocery bags that are branded and sold by my favorite local grocery store. they were 99-cents each and i get a nickel credit for each one every time i use them. i figure they will have paid for themselves by the year 2045, but in that time think of all the paper and plastic i'll save.

ok, maybe it's not that much. but it makes me feel like i'm doing something helpful and good and that's the whole point, right? right.

anyway! last week while i was in the "about 15 items only please" line the woman in front of me noticed my bags, had two of her own, and commented on how handy she finds them for all sorts of things. i small talked with her for a moment and in that time she decided to buy two more.

as the clerk was checking her out (eew, not like that) the bag boy asked the famous grocery store question. "paper or plastic?"

[remember: four reusable bags]

i didn't hear exactly what she said and apparently neither did he because he came back with, "you want me to put everything in plastic bags and then put them in paper? don't you want to use those?"

he pointed at her reusable bags.

she said no.

i did what i could to not laugh out loud.

and there she went ... out the door with a cart full of paper and plastic, and a bunch of environmentally-friendly containers buried somewhere in the mix.

it was awesome.