And another bag for the manners

There was an exceptionally rude woman in the supermarket this evening. She was buying a bottle of vodka and a couple of small bottles of tonic, and the cashier asked her if she wanted a bag.

"I can't carry them without one," she snapped.

"Some people bring their own," the cashier pointed out, which in this town is particularly pertinent as one of the Chamber of Commerce's projects has been a re-usable town bag, (which is a nice cotton one in two different sizes, not that I'd advertise).

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