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Wayne Boatwright[_3_] Wayne Boatwright[_3_] is offline
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Default I remembered the bags!

On Mon 04 Aug 2008 01:41:37p, Nancy Young told us...

> A couple of weeks ago I went to the farmer's market,
> everyone is all organic, direct from the farm to you. So
> I show up to buy vegetables and flowers, oh, can I have a
> bag? A plastic one? Everyone else had their canvas grocery
> bags with them. Just not me.
>
> So, I went back yesterday and remembered! to bring my
> bags. I felt quite virtuous. Heh.
>
> One guy put this vegetable/bread thing I bought into a plastic
> bag before I could point out that I didn't need a bag. He must
> do that a lot because he said someone else told him he should
> play a joke on people ... when they say Oh, I don't need a bag,
> he should say, oh, okay! give them their item and toss the plastic
> bag into the garbage.
>
> Oh, those wacky farmers.
>
> nancy
>


Oh, Lordy...Nancy Young the bag lady! :-)

We've been taking our own bags for years. I try to remember to put them
back in the trunk of the car right after we've unloaded everything.

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Wayne Boatwright
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Where am I going, and why am I in this
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