True Confession Time:
I have this weird thing with textures. This is very true with food textures, but it's also true with "things relating to the sense of touch" textures. I realize that publically proclaiming one's fears or dislikes is stupid (some moron will inevitably bombard me with those things I dislike and think it's funny!**), but you have a right to know these things about me. Anyway, I don't like cardboard or paper sacks. I realize their usefulness in our society, but they just feel so GROSS! I don't like the sound of them, I don't like the way they feel, I don't like the way my hands feel after I've touched them. I get chills if I hear someone doing that obnoxious tucking-the-box-flaps-under-eachother-in-lieu-of-tape thing. Sometimes it makes me feel sick to my stomach for a few seconds too.
So I wasn't displeased when the plastic grocery sack came along. They don't make me want to gag.
But dang it if those little buggers don't reproduce! I found some in my closet the other day. There was nothing in them. I don't remember putting them there and I think they ran away together to start a little plastic sack family in my closet! I used to save a couple of them every time I went to the store because they're very handy to use to take things from point A to point B, but then I realized that I never used as many as I saved, and I've never had a time when I was unable to find one hiding somewhere in my house when I needed it.
Back to the main point- imagine my surprise when I was at the Kroger Self-Check Out (shouldn't we get a discount of some sort for doing the work of a cashier?!) and saw that there were paper and plastic sacks available! It was like going back in time. I have to say that I was pleased to see paper sacks making a come back--they've got to be so much better environmentally and I can use them to wrap the books I send out (even if it does make me gag).
I'm starting to try to do things that make sense environmentally. I mean, I haven't been watching An Inconvenient Truth or anything...OK, yes I have! Maybe eventually, I'll follow Chelle's lead and go with reusable canvas bags. Those REALLY make sense.
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**Sometimes it can be funny to prey on a person's dislikes. Like the time that my friends Tara and Little Mandy (right?) heard a certain annoying boy who will remain nameless (his name began with a Kenneth and ended with a word that rhymes with Penny) say that he had a fear of pennies and promptly mailed some to his campus mailbox. I mean that was funny and they aren't morons at all. But if any of you screw with me, I will publicly decry you as a crackhead.
7 comments:
Horny plastic bags!
I don't think your "confession" was so bad. I can't abide the taste of soda from a can; I can taste the aluminum, THAT'S strange, too. Thanks for linking me and, I agree; plastic bags multiply like rabbits.
I too am inflicted but the box and bag symdrom you discribed. The worse for me is smooth raw wood if someone takes their hand across it.
I two have held the long standing belief that we should get a discount or at least get paid for utilizing self check out lanes. If they do not have to pay someone to stand there all day and not pay benefits to them I should have that in my pocket after using the lane.
T -
I couldn't agree more... for that very reason, I refuse to use self-check. If I'm going to have to pay as much as I do for groceries and not get a discount for scanning them myself, I'm certainly going to make someone work for it.
That's pretty much as activist as I get about anything, but I'm not going to help Kroger's profit margin any more than I have to.
By the way - since we're into confessions today... I refused to take TheMark. I never filled out the paperwork for my Kroger card, so I'm an anonymous shopper ! Ha ! Take that !
M- Indeed, but I try not to judge them.
C- Cans don't bother me like that, but sometimes silverware does.
T- That's interesting about the wood. That's never bothered me, but it's weird how odd things like cardboard and wood can mess with people. And seriously, Kroger could throw out a 5% discount incentive for using the self-checkout. They would never miss the 5%, and they'd save way more than that from not having a cashier.
K- You're actually not anonymous, you're ME! That's like...worse than anonymous.
I don't like the feel of paper bags either. The thing that has the worst feel to me though, are these two pan lids. I have to very very carefully touch them only by the handle, because I gives me shivers to touch the metal.
Plastic bags have bred to such high and dangerous levels here in Ireland that it now costs 15c to buy one. Reusable canvas types are all the rage :)
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