I was in Kroger after work yesterday picking up a few items I needed to cook a nice, romantic dinner for my wife. Chicken and pasta with a creamy sauce, some delicious breadsticks and a few drinks filled the excessive smallness of my mini cart. I love those little guys. If you haven’t seen one before, they are about half the length of a standard cart and have two levels to stow away your goodies. The shortness of the cart makes it roughly 100X more nimble and quick to move about in the grocery store. (I have no real, credible data to back up this claim) Not really that important or central to the story here, but I figured you might try one on your next grocery trip.
The point here is I knew that this trip to the grocery was going to be quick and painless. A few, choice items and a timely exit. I knew this. That’s why I grabbed the little cart.
That’s why I should have grabbed something out of my car, too. More specifically, three somethings. Three trophies to my personal “go green” initiative. My three re-usable, compactly stow-able shopping bags.
Do you have some of these? The obvious idea behind them is, with a little forethought, a person who desires to make a little difference in the environment can carry these very compact bags into the store with them, drop them in the cart, and use them instead of the classic, non-degrading, environment-trashing plastic bags at the end of your shopping adventure. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. You become, by this simple gesture, a great environmental figure. You have “gone green.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found this practice to be the absolute most difficult task to complete. No matter how many times I attempt it, I have never successfully managed to take those stinkin’ bags into the store with me. Not once in a year! Every single trip to the store ends with a guilt-ridden siege encapsulated by the profound statement: “I HAVE to remember to take those bags in next time!”
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