Lemme tell you...

[calzephyr]

I wish I had a composting toilet, because I figure when you have a composting toilet, no one can knock you off your eco-moral high ground. I was chided by a sales clerk today for asking for a plastic bag as my reusable one was full. "You're not saving the environment!" she scolded me. Well, geez! I don't have to justify my awesome recycling/reusing prowess, the composter or grasscycling to that dame. But it would have been nice to make a snappy comeback like "Pff! Screw reusable bags. Do you have a composting toilet? Are you recycling 100% of your waste? I didn't think so, nyah!"

Comments

[silvermare.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT come back! And the look on her face would have been so worth it!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Quite :-) I wish I wasn't the type that thinks of snappy things later :-) Plus a composting toilet would be a great way to save on the water bill too.

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

Well, geez. Your reusable one was full. What'd she expect you to do? Balance the rest of your shopping on your head? :P

At least you had a reusable one.

(Bugs the hell out of me that the best trash bags here are the grocery plastic ones, but the grocery is like the only place EVAR that charges for their plastic bags... Kudos for charging for the bags, but ARGH annoying when I have to use bags that don't fit AT ALL in my trash can.)


-Alexandra

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've never had a store begrudge me a shopping bag before. She must have been having a bad day to pick on me because I can't imagine her saying that to everybody! I have about 10 reuseable bags, but I always underestimate how many I'm going to need.

At least one grocery store here charges for bags (it's the one that also wants you to bag your own groceries). You're so right, the grocery store bags are the best trash bags. They're the right size and really strong. Plus you can recycle them into "yarn" for crochet - check out this cool link! (http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/08/plastic_bag_crafts.html)

[cyanus-fire.livejournal.com]

lol!
The other day I went to the ATM machine and got this notice

"would you like a receipt for your transaction?"

Please think of the planet.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I've encountered many machines that ask me if I want a receipt, and still give me a receipt even if I select "no." Sigh.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Fail! Bank A lets me go paperless, which is awesome. Bank B, which has our mortgage, won't. It's such a crying shame!

[cyanus-fire.livejournal.com]

maybe if Id pressed "yes" It might have gone

Motherfucker.