I'm all for helping the enviroment but for christs sake,can't I even go shopping without having a bloody row about a carrier bag. This is not the first time its happened. First the Co-op,thenTescos and today Somerfield. On the way back from town ,I decided to get some food so into Somerfield I wander. One basket of shopping (approx 2 carrier bags worth) and up to the til I went. The conversation went something like this.....Me "Can I have a couple of Carrier Bags please"
Assistant "Would you like to buy a bag for life for 10p and re-use it"
Me "No,can I just have couple of carrier bags please"
Assistant "With these re-useable bags you can bring them with you when you come back"
Me "I don't really have massive pockets for your bag and when I go out,bringing a super carrier bag is the last thing on my mind. Its bad enough remembering my keys and wallet and I don't carry a hand-bag"
Assistant " Its only 10p and you'll be saving the enviroment"
Me "I'll give you 10p extra just to shut you up mate. I just want 2 carrier bags please. Its a shop and I'm shopping"
Assistant "But you can use these bags for life"
Me "Look,can I just have some carrier bags please. I'm not going to have a row about it"
Assistant "Don't you want to save the enviroment then"
Me "I already do in many other ways,now are you going to give me the bags"
Assistant " We are gradually phasing carrier-bags out and soon they'll be no bags. I'll let you have them this time"
Me "Thanks,I'm eternally grateful. Don't worry,I won't come back and soon neither will anyone else. I can shop online like 99% of the population and soon,it will be your job they'll be phasing out"
Assistant "Theres no need to speak to me like that"
Me "Yes there is,you're a twat"
Is it just me or has the world gone enviromentally stupid?
17 comments:
Ah, you gotta love the English!
The last time I got into a "carrier bag rationing situation" I had to remind the check-out girl that Tesco's themselves are not helping the environment very much either by stocking and selling products with ridiculous amounts of un-needed oversized packaging and that the carrier bags I take from them (if they survive after being stuffed full of non-carrier bag friendly items) I in turn pass on to charity shops where they are reused without further funding the environment killing plastic bag manufacturers!
The thing that most pisses me off over recycling/environmental issues is this simple fact:
Over the past 20 years manufacturers and shops have made us into a "throwaway" nation with disposable this and disposable that, but now it's down to US to do something about it when it's not really our fault!
True, we all need to help if we're to stand any chance of "saving" the environment, but the companies responsible for the state we're in need to do something more positive than rationing or charging for a fucking carrier bag...
I'll end on that before I end up writing a book (at least it's not on paper!)... This country is getting more insane with every day that passes.
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Ha, ha, ha. Don't you just love those environmental nazi's, plastic bags are just a drop in the ocean of saving the planet, I had a bag for life once, the handle snapped, and as for these jobs worths, well like you said longy "twats" Keep on keeping on Bro!!
Rod,I've had that same arguement a few times. Today I was a bit too hungover and I was wanted to get my shopping and go!
Nuzz,those bags are crap. Next time I have this situation I'm gonna buy 2 of them. One for the shopping and one to set alight outside the shop window.....just to prove they ain't for life!
I might order a pizza in a giant enviromentally unfriendly cardboard box now. Then I will carefully place it in the correct recycling bin. For what? To see the bastard dustmen put all the same rubbish in the same dust-cart like usual!
Brillinat mate. Made me laugh.
Lol, a subject close to my heart matey! I've had this converation so many times recently with many a spotty oik. Next one that causes a fuss will be wearing the fukn thing! G
Cheers topper,Gary and Graham. Graham,your dvds have been posted btw.
V funny Longy. I'm with Lazy Rod - the sheer volume of packaging is a bigger pain in the arse and I reuse the placcy bags in my house bin (thus saving me buying their packaged bin bags for stupid cost). Also, they charge you for the bag for life but they give you the placcy bags for nowt - anyone else suspect a profit motive in the "encouragement" to buy a bag?
It can be quite amusing if you tell people like this that you're a fully paid up, card carrying member of the Green Party, and that the carrier bag story is just a conspiracy story put out by the establishment so that they can sell us over-priced "bags for life"...although all the staff will point and stare at you when you next go shopping there !
Cheers for the comments Highlander and Philip.
Maybe next time I buy my giant size box of Rice Crispies,I'll take the contents out of the box first and leave it with the bewildered idiot at the counter (then put my Crispies in my free carrier bag) If they say everything,I'll spout the "E" word.
Hilarious stories here. I work in a supermarket in the States and this "bag for life" situation is just creeping in....
Oh boy
Wear a tin hat to work mate!
Hehe
Excellent - am going to try the Rice Crispies one
Hi Longy, pissed myself at your conversation piece - you're a fukn genius mate! I've had it before too from a little numpty 17 yr old, who thinks he's better than me cos he's on a till, when that job is the only thing that stops him masturbating + squeezing spots all day. Never mind the (Bollocks?-) carrier bags, it's the state of customer service everywhere in the UK these days and it get's worse year after year. Supermarket's are the worst! Some of their staff want to get off their high horses, lose the attitude and realise that they wear a shitty uniform to work like myself + most others and that i should not be indebted to them forever for helping to keep me alive. Sorry, frothing at the mouth now:-) Lazy Rod has got it spot on & Philip, i'm going to use your suggestion at the first available opportunity! I've no problem with saving the environment + i recycle everything i can, but i won't be told to help save the planet by a large corporation that's been ruining it for years! (P.S. - i take my own bags when i go shopping;-)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets so wound up about this Jockman. I certainly don't or never intend to take my own bags shopping. That would be bowing down to them. Fuck em. I want my free bags til I die! LONG LIVE THE FREE CARRIERS :-)
Nice one, I've had some stupid arguments over shopping bags as well, went in one shop who wanted to charge me 5p for a bag so I said I wanted one that didn't advertise their shop if I had to pay and surely they should be paying me for the free advertising got it for free eventually.
Also an argument with Tesco's over a bag for life which isn't actually a bag for life.
I took in an old one after the bottom fell out of it (I use it in an environmental way, for putting all my bottles in for a trip to the bottle bank) they said they could only replace it for reasonable wear and tear so I just kept repeating Bag for life and it got silly till a member of management gave me a new one :)
lol - brilliant Asbo! I haven't got as far as asking for a bag for life yet so you are way ahead of me.....it might be because I drink out of cans!
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