B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 11, 2020

Enlightened, at last!

I’ve been doing that for 15 years but I still can’t float in the air.

They started making that a legal requirement in NY. People were generally adjusting pretty nicely. Then the virus hit, and runs on grocery stores went so high that they effectively revoked it before you could blink.

The majority of which are germ-infested.

Either THAT or the guy’s got gas.

Turns out that using reusable bags is bad for your health, living packed like sardines is bad for your health, riding around packed like sardines is bad for your health. Makes me skeptical about anything else I’ve been told by the “experts”.

Ahh trying to spread the Wuhan.

Some days I don’t get the joke. Was there a backstory that grocery bags give you superhuman powers of levitation?

Well with the current virus situation the grocery store I work at shoppers are not allowed to use their reuseable bags right now.

One guru is much more than enough.

Europe has been doing that for decades.

This is like vegans and crossfit people thinking they’re superheroes.

They have grocery stores?

Huh. I figured he’d just drank a Red Bull…

OMmmmmmmmmmm

I brought reusable bags woven of synthetics to the counter. The checker said they couldn’t handle them, so I packed them myself. Not a problem. I was able to distribute the heavy stuff instead of loading it in one bag like some checkers. Worked well for both of us. It’s called adapting to the circumstances, Folks. Complaining isn’t.

He wants his trophy!

I’ve been using cloth bags for many years, now. The company I worked for started selling them for a dollar as a promotional. I started using them, but I’ve yet to achieve levitation. I do feel a certain amount of positive feeling when I think that this act could save a sea creature. I’m very conscious of my responsibility to properly care for my part of the planet. Now, if I can just get my workshop cleaned up.

So that’s the secret! I thought I needed to learn Kung Fu to float. Recycling it much easier. You just need to practice longer.

The no-home-bags policy happened before we knew anything about the NOVEL Coronavirus. Even now we don’t know everything about including symptoms or all the ways the virus can attack our bodies.Linens, clothing, and other items that go in the laundry. CDCMuch is still unknown about the virus’s survivability on other types of surfaces like clothing, or carpeting. Kuritzkes says that based on prior research, it seems that “flat surfaces and hard surfaces are more friendly to viruses than cloth or rough surfaces.” NPR

However, the unknown person has been touching the reusable bag multiple times including when s/he hands the bag to the cashier. Yes, most of us are disappointed that we’ve had to return to plastic and/or paper bags. Hopefully, time will teach us how to use them without possible infection for those in business of all types.

Grocery store baggers are appreciative when people Wash their reusable bags. Too many do not and they are just Icky! (Of course right now they aren’t allowed, but in the future when it becomes a mandate, again, remember to wash them.)

Necessity has taken me one step further. I walk to the store (no car), take the cart they have sanitized and get my groceries. After paying (self-checkout), I roll the cart up to near the exit and load everything into my knapsack. Not showing off, just doing what I need to do ;)

I started using reusable bags years ago when Hospice turned their nose up at the donation of the plastic bags. They buy their bags now!

Same here in SF… the T-Shirt bags are back for the duration.

I still haven’t found anyone who can explain why it is better for the environment to use reusable grocery bags, and then BUY single-use plastic garbage bags, which come in a box or a smaller plastic bag. I like to get my garbage bags free and without extra package waste.

And if I manage to get too many, the local thrift store just opened up again, and is wanting them – plus any donations must be in a cardboard box or a plastic bag, so there’s another use!

Remind me, how many times to those expensive garbage bags you buy get used?

Oh, I do use reusable grocery bags when I have plenty of garbage bags at home – they get washed whenever they are used for meat products or anything else that leaks. Why would anyone let them get dirty enough to become a health issue?

And can you tell I’ve been around WAY too many anti-plastic-grocery-bag fanatics lately? Sorry for the rant.

Johnny Hart was a religious zealot, but at least he wasn’t guilty of constant anachronisms.

Ironically, the guy who invented plastic bags had intended them to be reused, not single use.