bag or no bag? that is the question.....

Sorry to be so long in replying......

Being that I am a soft-spoken person and that I very often say that I don't need a bag or that I have my own, I regularly experience the whole when to say "no bag, please" thing (I won't bore you all with my experiences, though, unless you request it:). I'm sorry that the cashier stuff offended you, Jodi (I don't think that cashiers are morons), and I will agree with you that, yep, it is silly to discuss how and when to decline a bag. Maybe that is why I found the illustration in the article so funny, though, because it IS so silly. It reminded me of me. I know that probably all of you think I am off the deep end with my ecological interests and maybe this article served to solidify that notion in your minds:) but your comments, Jodi, served to remind me that you guys aren't off the deep end like me and that's fine, too. Conserving a bag or recycling doesn't save the earth -- like the author talked about, paper or plastic doesn't inherently matter -- but I try to do the bit that I can, for the discipline and thoughtfulness aspect of it,even though I drive an SUV (it puts more pollution in the air than any of all ya'lls cars) and have a large house. In that regards, Jodi, you probably pollute less than me since you live so close to work, drive a smaller car, and share walls (thus cutting heating costs) even though I recycle everything I can and reuse grocery bags. Anyway, I'm losing my train of thought and won't be coherent much longer.....it's late, I need to sleep.....I'll comment on the other post later.....