Has Been Given “Alternative Facts” About Climate Change
(A woman approaches my register and hands me four reusable grocery bags she has brought with her. I scan her groceries and start bagging them into the reusable bags.)
Woman: “What are you doing! Don’t put stuff directly in the bags! They’ll get dirty!”
(I stand confused for a moment, but she comes around and starts bagging items individually into plastic bags, then putting the plastic bags into the reusable bags. I follow her lead.)
Woman: “Honestly! You’d think they would have you better trained. EVERYONE uses cloth bags nowadays!”
Me: “I apologize. Most people use them because they are better for the environment.”
Woman: *smiling at me now* “Oh, I know. That’s why I bought them!”
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