03-23-2020, 08:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2020, 08:32 PM by John J. Xenakis.)
** 23-Mar-2020 World View: Laugh of the day - Reusable bags
Who says that you can't have fun with Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19)?
I've always been pissed off by the prohibition against single use
plastic bags. The whole prohibition was a crock of shit because the
packaging for the food for a typical bag of groceries contains enough
plastic for ten plastic bags.
So that left people with a choice -- carry around your own bag all the
time, in case you decide to buy something, and turn into a bag lady,
or else pay 10 cents for paper bags supplied by the store. This
REALLY pissed me off not only because of the charge, but mainly
because this is a "screw the Boomer" law. If a bag tears for a young
kid, then he won't have any trouble picking up the groceries from the
sidewalk. But if any old person (like myself) has a bag tear, then
trying to collect the groceries from the street or sidewalk is a major
project, and may be next to impossible. So this bag law is blatant
age discrimination.
So the city of Cambridge issued the following edict about an hour ago:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
I can hardly wait to buy groceries tomorrow so I can tell the girl at
the cash register that I want two or three bags instead of just one,
and laugh as I say it.
At my age, it's almost impossible to have any fun, but this is going
to be fun. I know that it's extremely pathetic, but a guy's gotta
have fun somehow, and this is it.
Maybe some day I'll tell you how I have fun with spam telephone
callers.
Who says that you can't have fun with Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19)?
I've always been pissed off by the prohibition against single use
plastic bags. The whole prohibition was a crock of shit because the
packaging for the food for a typical bag of groceries contains enough
plastic for ten plastic bags.
So that left people with a choice -- carry around your own bag all the
time, in case you decide to buy something, and turn into a bag lady,
or else pay 10 cents for paper bags supplied by the store. This
REALLY pissed me off not only because of the charge, but mainly
because this is a "screw the Boomer" law. If a bag tears for a young
kid, then he won't have any trouble picking up the groceries from the
sidewalk. But if any old person (like myself) has a bag tear, then
trying to collect the groceries from the street or sidewalk is a major
project, and may be next to impossible. So this bag law is blatant
age discrimination.
So the city of Cambridge issued the following edict about an hour ago:
Quote: "In a continued collective effort to halt the spread
of COVID-19, Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale and
Commissioner of Public Health Assaad J. Sayah, MD, today issued a
temporary emergency order that restricts customers at essential
retail establishments from using reusable bags after purchasing
retail products. Neither staff at essential retail establishments
nor their customers are permitted to bag retail products using
customers’ reusable bags at checkout. During this temporary
emergency, there will be no fees associated with retail
establishment bags. This order is in effect
immediately."
https://www.cambridgema.gov/covid19/News...blishments
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
I can hardly wait to buy groceries tomorrow so I can tell the girl at
the cash register that I want two or three bags instead of just one,
and laugh as I say it.
At my age, it's almost impossible to have any fun, but this is going
to be fun. I know that it's extremely pathetic, but a guy's gotta
have fun somehow, and this is it.
Maybe some day I'll tell you how I have fun with spam telephone
callers.
