I remember a caption to a photo in a local newspaper last year saying that a group of people (officers or other) were helping out “needy people” by volunteering to serve dishes at a soup kitchen. Kudos to them and all, but people who are less fortunate than you have exactly the same needs as you– the need for clean food, clean water, clean air, and clean shelter.
That caption irked me then and it still does today, though I’m on a different end now. I deal with needy people every day at work as a cashier at a glorified grocery store. People who “need” bags because they forgot their own. Don’t you know your own reusable bags (cloth, preferably) have greater structural integrity, speed up the checkout process, and minimize the need for virgin resource extrapolation and wasteful energy use? Entitlement and privilege, I can’t stand it sometimes.
Save a young sapling and bring your own fucking bags, please.
Catinon ★ 