Overheard at a supermarket check-out:
Cashier, handing customer his purchases in a plastic bag: "This is the last month you'll get one of these in plastic. Next month we're going back to paper bags."
Customer, distressed: "What am I going to use for the garbage?"
Cashier, with a sigh: "It's a problem, isn't it?"
Cat, to herself: It's really true--what goes around, comes around. I remember the switch from paper to plastic. At first we had a choice. We chose paper, for the very reason the bags fit nicely into the kitchen garbage container--the plastic ones just flopped there. Soon, though, there was no longer a choice. So we adapted. Isn't that the great strength of mankind--our ability to adapt?
Yes, this too shall pass. "This" being the temporary inconvenience of learning to love paper garbage bags.
The secret is don't throw anything wet into them.
--Cat
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