You Know What Pisses Me Off?

The Grocery Bag Situation. Yes, it deserves to be capitalized because it seems like a full event each and every time I get groceries.

I am fully supportive of the green movement. We religiously recycle, compost and all the rest. We're vegetarians. I pack the kids snacks in reusable containers. Heck, we barely drive anymore. I feel we are doing our part.

But yet every time I go get groceries I feel like a hardened criminal. The cashier liiks at my pitiful stack of cloth bags and then to my heaping cart full of food. She sighs and then asks the dreaded question. "You need bags"?

You see, we have a SMALL place. We have a LARGE stroller. That we have to store in the trunk. We have a small-ish car. And two LARGE car seats. What that all equates to is not much room for other stuff.

So while we have about 25 cloth bags of varying sizes....I can't always get to them. And at 9:30pm after a long day the thought of dragging our double stroller out of the trunk to find the pile of bags is not happening.

So I brought in the 3 bags I could get.

Now on to the real reason I am annoyed.

I have 3 cloth bags. They are large and will hold a good amount of our stuff....but likely not all. Since I'm not some kind of savant at figuring out the ratio of groceries to bags and cubic storage space...I have no fucking idea if I need more bags!!!

So I answer the cashier's question. "I'm not yet sure".

She stares at me for a moment. Blinks. Then asks again. "But do you need bags"?

WTF?

"I don't know. You see, I have some bags here....but I might need more. I have no way of knowing If I need bags until I've filled these ones".

Her reply?

"So what do you want me to do"?

Oh.My.God. I'm about to have a stroke. But I contain myself.

"I want to wait and see if I need bags".

To which she responded, "Oh. Okay".

Seriously? Why is this so difficult?

Next time I will dig the bags out first. It's not worth the hassle.