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Reusable Bags...
I live on a three-cornered lot - a thin peninsula of weeds and hope where three streets meet. It's a wonderful view with two shopping mall parking lots and a set of traffic lights that makes irritating beep-boop sounds when the light changes -Beep-boop, beep-boop, beep-boop.
As a result of those two shopping malls my lot is caught in the wind-funnelled path of every bit of litter that is dropped or blows across the twin plains of those parking lots. The detritus of consumerism - paper coffee cups, daily newspapers, cough drop wrappers, Coke cup lids, MacDonalds paper bags, tattered bus transfers and lately reusable shopping bags.
I remember when stores began to supply consumers with reusable shopping bags. In fact, I still carry a big old canvas Sobeys bag with me when I go to the gym. It's great for picking up milk.
These days the reusable bags are made out of some kind of space-age plastic - (space age? Shoot, I am showing my age) - which is neither durable nor useful. They wear out all too quickly, I find.
And lately I have begun to find these wonderful reusable shopping bags - the bag that was supposed to save the environment and put an end to those eerie trees full of plastic shopping bags blowing eerily in the wind - on my lawn and trapped in my rose bushes.
In the past two weeks I've found three of them. I expect to see more.
Beep-boop, beep-boop, beep-boop.
yours in storytelling,
Steve Vernon
As a result of those two shopping malls my lot is caught in the wind-funnelled path of every bit of litter that is dropped or blows across the twin plains of those parking lots. The detritus of consumerism - paper coffee cups, daily newspapers, cough drop wrappers, Coke cup lids, MacDonalds paper bags, tattered bus transfers and lately reusable shopping bags.
I remember when stores began to supply consumers with reusable shopping bags. In fact, I still carry a big old canvas Sobeys bag with me when I go to the gym. It's great for picking up milk.
These days the reusable bags are made out of some kind of space-age plastic - (space age? Shoot, I am showing my age) - which is neither durable nor useful. They wear out all too quickly, I find.
And lately I have begun to find these wonderful reusable shopping bags - the bag that was supposed to save the environment and put an end to those eerie trees full of plastic shopping bags blowing eerily in the wind - on my lawn and trapped in my rose bushes.
In the past two weeks I've found three of them. I expect to see more.
Beep-boop, beep-boop, beep-boop.
yours in storytelling,
Steve Vernon
