Its me?

Its not that I wasn't writing in here; I was abducted by aliens and was temporarily unavailable. But I'm back now so everything is back to normal.

I had to pick up a few essentials today: ground pork, hair gel, and coffee beans. These are going to be used independently of each other, not some crazy mad-chef concoction. The bored checkout girl asked the normal "paper or plastic" and I answered my normal "Paper, please."

I prefer paper bags since they are recyclable and will actually break down if they actually make it to a landfill, unlike plastic bags which will be around for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Here is my paper bag from the grocery store:

And this is what was inside. One bag of coffee beans, and whats this? 2 plastic bags? What on earth?


Now, wrapping the ground pork in a plastic bag sort of makes sense, just in case the sealed package was leaking (which they never do from my experience). But why on earth did she need to put the hair gel in a whole separate bag? Did it need to be protected from the sealed back of coffee beans? Is having the plastic hair gel container pressed up against a paper bag recipe for disaster?

You have to wonder how many plastic bags are wasted this way. I'm going to guess its in the tens of thousands every day in this fine country of ours.