I was looking for infants patterns in an opshop when I heard this conversation. I won't say overheard, because the ladies involved were standing right next to me and talking very loudly.
These ladies have figured out the problem with the world today. The problem, they said, is that 'they're' making plastic bags too thin, so that they break down after time. Its all the government's fault, they told each other. The government evidently wants us to only ever use paper bags. But you can't put damp food in a paper bag! It falls out the bottom. The government people are too young. They don't understand these things.
Yes, they repeated, thats the problem today, all the politicians are younger than us. Some head waggling occurred at this point. They have no idea. Have 'they' ever tried to put sugar in a paper bag in a humid climate, the blue-rinsed lady asked? Probably not. They're too young to understand. Why, said the more elderly of the two, they're ALL younger than me. That is the problem.
Why do they presume they're supposed to use paper bags? They're just not supposed to be using disposable plastic ones.
ReplyDeletePaper ones use trees.
They're supposed to be using strong plastic bags- the same ones for years.
These ladies should write Obama. I'm sure he'd take care of it. Sounds like something he ought to be doing...solving the world's problems!
ReplyDeleteAnd I guess politicians our getting younger. Our age! In America the first US representative born in the 1980s was elected in this year. (I wonder: does that mean we're getting younger?)
Ha ha. My goodness. One just has to laugh.
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