We've discussed how frequently some of us who have cloth bags forget to
*use* them. I've mentioned that I usually have a couple *on my passenger
seat*, and *still* forget them when I go into the store.

I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.

I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
and checked out.

So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...


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On Jan 20, 1:12*pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> So, do I win? *I'll start working on my acceptance speech...

I'll take a run at winning. How 'bout buying a cloth shopping bag at
the more often used grocery store while shopping with a friend, then
purposely leaving the bag on the table where your purse is always kept
when you get home so that you'll not forget to take it with you for
your own shopping next day. You do take the bag into the store
Saturday morning to get just the few items needed from a list you did
not have with you the day before. While at checkout you converse with
a long not seen friend, not paying attention to the fact that the
checker has scanned your yesterday-bought cloth bag. Also not
noticing and replying "Plasitc," that the bag person put your small
purchase all into a plastic bag. You continue visiting with the old
friend as you walk to your car and don't realize what has happened
until you're home and unpacking. Voila! Now you at least take care
to wash this pesky bag so as not to have the same happen next time you
may remember and take it with you shopping....duh!

...Picky

On Jan 20, 1:12 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> We've discussed how frequently some of us who have cloth bags forget to
> *use* them. I've mentioned that I usually have a couple *on my passenger
> seat*, and *still* forget them when I go into the store.
>
> I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
> with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
> basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
> and checked out.
>
> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
> --
> Blinky
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:http://improve-usenet.org
> Blinky:http://blinkynet.net

Blinky, I feel your pain as I've done the same thing lots of times.
Maybe we can share the award? :-)

"Blinky the Shark" > wrote

> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
> with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
> basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
> and checked out.
>
> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...

(laugh) You win! Too funny, and I can easily see me doing just
that, except my cloth bag would be in the cart under my pocketbook.

I need to pay more attention. Earlier this week, I went to Costco. I
needed a few things but I specifically waited until this week because I
had the buy 1 get 1 free chicken coupon. Was out to my car when I
realized I hadn't handed the cashier the coupon. (bad words here)
I went back inside and told the return desk, she said, sure, I'll fix it.
As she's trying to figure out how to accomplish that, she had to call
over the supe (her word) and they figured it out together.

It was only 8 bucks, but damned if I was leaving without it. Heh.
What a dummy.

nancy

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:41:56 -0800 (PST), missussex
> fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>On Jan 20, 1:12 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:

<snip>

>> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
>> with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
>> basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
>> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
>> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
>> and checked out.
>>
>> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...

>Blinky, I feel your pain as I've done the same thing lots of times.
>Maybe we can share the award? :-)

Is there a separate category or subcategory for paying for your dry
cleaning, then walking off without it? I think "res ipsa loquitur"
might be the appropriate umbrella category, with "Having It and Not
Using It" and "Leaving It and Not Having it" as the subcategories. :-)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines


To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> Is there a separate category or subcategory for paying for your dry
> cleaning, then walking off without it? I think "res ipsa loquitur"
> might be the appropriate umbrella category, with "Having It and Not
> Using It" and "Leaving It and Not Having it" as the subcategories. :-)

Yeah, it goes along with me the time I forgot to pack my sons lunch. I
decided I would be like the other parents and just zip through the drive
through and take him a treat of a fast food lunch. Work meeting ran
long, long line at drive through, clock is ticking, I order, I pay, I
drive off.

Halfway to the school, bad words, drive back. Get to the order window
"Hi, this is the crazy lady who drove off without her food." Everyone
working had to peek out the window at me.

sigh

marcella

On Sun 20 Jan 2008 05:36:54p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:41:56 -0800 (PST), missussex
> > fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
>>On Jan 20, 1:12 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a
>>> bag with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart
>>> or basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked
>>> out. As I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I
>>> remembered that I had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the
>>> whole time I shopped -- and checked out.
>>>
>>> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
>>Blinky, I feel your pain as I've done the same thing lots of times.
>>Maybe we can share the award? :-)
>
> Is there a separate category or subcategory for paying for your dry
> cleaning, then walking off without it? I think "res ipsa loquitur"
> might be the appropriate umbrella category, with "Having It and Not
> Using It" and "Leaving It and Not Having it" as the subcategories. :-)
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

Reminds me of a friend of my parents. His wife asked him to take an
umbrella to their daughter in school. He took it alright, but never
thought to open it in the pouring rain as he walked to the school to give
it to her.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> We've discussed how frequently some of us who have cloth bags forget to
> *use* them. I've mentioned that I usually have a couple *on my passenger
> seat*, and *still* forget them when I go into the store.
>
> I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
> with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
> basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
> and checked out.
>
> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
>
I did have to LOL, because I can see myself doing the exact
same thing!

--
Jean B.

Blinky the Shark wrote:
> We've discussed how frequently some of us who have cloth bags forget to
> *use* them. I've mentioned that I usually have a couple *on my passenger
> seat*, and *still* forget them when I go into the store.
>
> I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a bag
> with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
> basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked out. As
> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
> and checked out.
>
> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...

Where does "not remembering to take them into the store until the
checkout line with your stuff on it is moving, then making a mad dash
back to the parking lot for the bags and back in again before the
cashier gets to the end of your stuff and you hold up the whole line
and the people behind you begin to toe-tap exasperatedly" place in the
pantheon of cloth grocery bag loserdom? :-)

(I did that last Saturday.)

--
Silvar Beitel

On Jan 20, 5:40 pm, PickyJaz > wrote:
> On Jan 20, 1:12 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
> > I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> > So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
> I'll take a run at winning. How 'bout buying a cloth shopping bag at
> the more often used grocery store while shopping with a friend, then
> purposely leaving the bag on the table where your purse is always kept
> when you get home so that you'll not forget to take it with you for
> your own shopping next day. You do take the bag into the store
> Saturday morning to get just the few items needed from a list you did
> not have with you the day before. While at checkout you converse with
> a long not seen friend, not paying attention to the fact that the
> checker has scanned your yesterday-bought cloth bag. Also not
> noticing and replying "Plasitc," that the bag person put your small
> purchase all into a plastic bag. You continue visiting with the old
> friend as you walk to your car and don't realize what has happened
> until you're home and unpacking. Voila! Now you at least take care
> to wash this pesky bag so as not to have the same happen next time you
> may remember and take it with you shopping....duh!
>
> ...Picky

Oh my! I think you get the prize for that one. <G> With me, it's
usually forgetting to tell them to use the bags they just shoved
through the belt after they've started to put the groceries into
plastic.

A few clerks now see me coming, and will actually start to load the
bags I put out there. Not many, but I'm getting to be "known".
Probably my picture is on the dart board in the break room....

maxine in ri

On Jan 21, 12:34 am, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
> On Sun 20 Jan 2008 05:36:54p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...
>
>
>
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:41:56 -0800 (PST), missussex
> > > fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
> >>On Jan 20, 1:12 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
> > <snip>
>
> >>> I only needed a couple-three things. I actually remembered to take a
> >>> bag with me. Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart
> >>> or basket. I took my couple-three things to the checkout. I checked
> >>> out. As I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I
> >>> remembered that I had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the
> >>> whole time I shopped -- and checked out.
>
> >>> So, do I win? I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
> >>Blinky, I feel your pain as I've done the same thing lots of times.
> >>Maybe we can share the award? :-)
>
> > Is there a separate category or subcategory for paying for your dry
> > cleaning, then walking off without it? I think "res ipsa loquitur"
> > might be the appropriate umbrella category, with "Having It and Not
> > Using It" and "Leaving It and Not Having it" as the subcategories. :-)
>
> > Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> Reminds me of a friend of my parents. His wife asked him to take an
> umbrella to their daughter in school. He took it alright, but never
> thought to open it in the pouring rain as he walked to the school to give
> it to her.
>
Better than taking the kid to drop off and forgetting them in the
carseat....

:-O

maxine in ri

On Jan 20, 10:12*pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> We've discussed how frequently some of us who have clothbagsforget to
> *use* them. *I've mentioned that I usually have a couple *on my passenger
> seat*, and *still* forget them when I go into the store.
>
> I think I just achieved the Pinnacle Of Stupid for cloth bag behavior.
>
> I only needed a couple-three things. *I actually remembered to take a bag
> with me. *Not doing a big shop, I didn't even bother with a cart or
> basket. *I took my couple-three things to the checkout. *I checked out.. As
> I was walking away with my plastic bag of groceries I remembered that I
> had the cloth bag tucked *under my left arm* the whole time I shopped --
> and checked out.
>
> So, do I win? *I'll start working on my acceptance speech...
>
> --
> Blinky
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:http://improve-usenet.org
> Blinky:http://blinkynet.net

Over the past few years our cloth range has become more and more
popular. The amusing thing is I own a company that supplies printed
bags and even I forget to take one to the shops.

http://www.theprintedbagshop.co.uk