Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 27, 2019

Agreed. Life was much harder when they printed OPEN at the bottom of the bag.

I have to wet my fingertips just to get the furshlugginer thing open.

Gosh, I haven’t seen or heard the word “furshlugginer” in years! My late brother used it quite frequently decades ago after seeing it used in early Mad Magazines. It still popped-up occasionally in conversations with him before his passing a couple of years ago.

Now try to open one of those green garbage bags.

As long as there’s not “closed” printed on the bottom.

We still don’t have that here in India! We guess, curse, tear, before we get one to open! Nowadays most markets have assistants hovering near bag rolls!!

Opening plastic bags might become a thing of the past before long in some states, and I understand the need to reduce plastic waste.

However, if we return to paper bags, we will have to cut down more trees, which will also hurt the environment.

Maybe reusable cloth bags will be mandated.

Now if my husband would only read the bag, before trying to open it…

The bag always opens at the perforation that you tore.

Attention Jimmy Johnson: Arlo (and Janis) needs to start bringing his own reusable shopping and veggie bags to the store.

Now, if only somebody would print “pull this string” on feed bags. I can never get them open without taking the scissors to the top. Aaargh.

The technology advance of the decade! :o)

The kitchen trash bags are the worst. No “open”, the ends look identical, and the plastic sticks to itself better than to anything else.

Should I have a tatoo pn my (right or left) index finger that reads “Pull my finger”?

You know every grocery store is supposed to take back the plastic bags for recycling and you can reuse them for your small trash cans in the bathroom and bed rooms.

♪♫ “I’m sighing in my rage, just sighing in my rage…” ♪♫

I need a knife, pliers and safety gloves to open my cottage cheese container. I wonder what the manufacturers think will happen without the security tops.

I have found the gold medal 5 lbs bag impossible to open without ripping the bag.

the stores won’t give you plastic bags to put your groceries in but they still give you plastic bags for the produce

I feel the same way as Arlo!

I had an uncle that always carried a pocket knife….somehow, when I was younger, that amused me…….now I are one

I hate those bags. They are impossible to open.

My life changed when …

Arlo narrates my life.

Actually, because I am so glad the government does not regulate everything, ie every roll of plastic vegetable bags do not have roll off the exact same way, I appreciate a little notation … pull here … to help me along.

I’ve never seen such words on the baggies. Just double checked, nope. Not there. ( In CA)

And before that, sliced bread…

Amen to that!

I once had to use a wheelchair ramp that had a sticker on it that helpfully said TOP so you would know which end to put where. Only, it had been put on the wrong side and I didn’t notice, with the result that I had 170 pounds of ramp and power chair land in a collapsed V right on my foot. A dozen years later I still feel it.

When we do craft shows (although have not done in a few years) I would put the little bears I make in a sandwich size plastic bag (multiple ones in the larger "twist tie: size) and hand them to people that way to protect the bag both from getting wet/falling on the floor and getting dirty and from being stuck in a larger bag and getting damaged. Not sure if I can still do this when start doing shows again or not as it will be after the state bag law comes into being. (Also good as children walk around with them in the clear bags other children and adults see them and come looking for them.) I have been saving the bags that my newspapers are delivered in to use for the bears. (Delivered newspapers, I believe are also exempt from the no bag law along with meat, produce, and items prepacked in the plastic bags.

I first saw this one on June 28, 2022!