I understand, I really do, plastic bags are bad, they are killing the wild life and choking the oceans. But why are supermarket staff quite so smug, surely it’s them that been peddling death all this time.
Now they are allowed to charge, and keep, 5p per bag whilst still ignoring the paper option used around the rest of the world. Their answer though is hide them, or attempt to ration them whilst twisting their faces to try and look down their noses from a seated position should we dare wish to buy one.
We haven’t got any.
I got to the self service section of the local Asda, a part of the shop, or so I though, that is set up just so we can avoid the smugness and purchase our goods with no twisted nose looking and waste the 5p in a guilt free environment. But no no, twelve checkouts and not a single carrier bag in sight.
So in contravention of the promised peace of the Safe Zone, I had to ask.
Me “can i have a bag please”
Smug person “Oh I don’t think we have any”
Me “its a supermarket of course you have bags”
Smug person “I don’t think so”
Me “okay”
Smug person “where are you going… you can’t just leave your shopping there”
We make it to the door and she is still talking, just what the Safe Zone is supposed to avoid, surely?
Smug person “don’t you want your shopping?”
Me “of course that’s why i spent 15 minutes getting it together and 5 in the queue, but I’m not going to eat and drink it here. I need to get it to my car and then from the car to my house”
Me to myself “if only someone could come up with a device that could contain my goods, allow me to carry them all with just one hand, I wouldn’t mind paying a pittance for it, maybe 5p or so”
Mischievous Magpie 