The other day, it was the idea of my planned Spring garden.
Today, it was the idea on kitchen towel deigns.
I need some more kitchen towels for my modest castle, so while I ran into town this morning to mail off my garden seeds order at the P.O., I decided to stop at Joann’s for some cotton yarn. I bought enough yarn to knit up several towel sets (dishrag in the mix, too 😉).
I want to knit up Spring/Summer themed towel sets: I found several colors I like:
After the skeins were tallied and ready to be paid for, the cashier asked, “Would you like a paper bag?”
We are in the monsoon season here in the PNW, with snow in the forecast, so I said, “I prefer plastic”.
She said, “We don’t have plastic – plastic has been phased out. Each paper bag will cost you 8 cents.”
I asked, “So, there is no alternative to the paper bag?”
She said, “No – but …” and she waved her hand behind her head to the fancy, spendy, brand name fabric totes hung on the pegboard behind her, “you can buy one of these bags and reuse it. But you may not bring a bag from home to use.”
This was an old-fashioned shafting.
I just looked at her, while mentally counting to ten.
Then I said, “So, you are asking me if I want a paper bag to carry my yarn out of this store in … knowing full well that there is no alternative; then you flatly state I will be charged an 8-cent fee. Why bother asking?”
She said, “Well, it will show up on your receipt. I don’t want you to be surprised.”
I said, “The only thing that kinda surprises me anymore is that people think it’s okay to shaft someone if they ask permission to do so – with, or without my permission, they will do it anyway. Removing all alternatives; then asking if it’s okay in a passive-aggressive way, does not make it okay.”
I mean: the nerve!
I didn’t shout.
I didn’t throw a fit.
But I was very firm in my annoyed response to the store’s political BS.
This is just the start of the political bullshit that will start snowballing, now that the obamanites feel smug, fat, and sassy.
They know people have to shop: they know it rains in the PNW 10 months out of a 12 month year (it’s that rainforest/ocean effect); they know you cannot carry 14 skeins of yarn, or a month’s worth of groceries to your car without purchases being bagged.
And anyone with a functioning brain cell knows that paper does not hold up in continual rainfall like plastic does.
But, as the self-absorbed “scientific-minded” obamanites have proven since 2009 – they don’t have any functioning brain cells; biden is a prime example.
So far, the grocery stores are still using plastic – and they have not been charging for their plastic bags (I grocery shopped at Winco and Safeway last week; and stopped at Walmart on the way home this morning) … but it is in the air that they will start charging for each bag in June. I figure I’ll be shafted for $5.00 every month, basically just because DC mandates it, and local governors can enforce it.
DC claims it is necessary – (no real reason why) – other than plastic bags are ‘not sanitary enough’.
But recycled paper bags are sanitary???? Who knows where the previous paper product used in the recycled paper bags came from … or what was in it/on it/around it?
The whole thing is ridiculous.
That said, I did start on my new kitchen towel set this afternoon.
I like it so far, and can’t wait to get it finished and in use in my castle kitchen 😊
