Yesterday, after humping all my meager possessions up to my second floor apartment (Thank God for Otis Elevator) I got my apartment in what could be described as early college student decor… I went to the local supermarket for some grub as Phil wasn’t around to graciously feed me. Getting what would needed at the minimum to carry me over to early Sunday morn excursion to Wally Weird, so as to avoid most of the dieversity, screaming kids and super tanker land whales to sustain me for the month.
I put my grub on the check out conveyor and flirted with the young thang ringing up my purchase and stepped at the end looking around the store and the young thang asked “paper?” and I replied, “no, plastic is fine…” She looked at me funny and said, ” No, paper but the bag is 5 cents” , 5 cents for a bag, was my startled reply… Yes and no plastic bags unless it is one you bring in… What the fluck am I gonna use to line the fracken waste baskets? Two guys that had followed me in from the parking lot and had commented on my South Dakota tag and my Ornery Bastard on Board bumper sticker Phil had sent me were behind me in the check out line started busting out laughing at my ignorance and naivety to “OREGON COMMIE” way of life… fuck, my thought, what the unholy hell have I got myself into, 5 fucking cents for a paper bag where just a short time and one state away, paper and plastic bags were given away free gratis with your purchase, and you had a choice between paper or plastic. Five cents, not gonna break me, but the adage, “Nickel and Dime me to death” sure came to mind.
I called Phil that night to vent my building rage at the fucking 5 cent extortion I have been exposed to. When I left the Glorious Socialist State of Oregon in 2000, we only had a nickel a can and a dime a bottle “deposit” to contend with. I don’t ever believed in all the time I have talked with Phil over the phone that he truly had a belly laugh like that at my expense and Phil ain’t got a belly! I am sure between the tears of laughter he was obviously was trying to wipe away he explained the state of Oregon, and the state of Washington in their bloated, craven socialist utopia to implement a ‘tax/fee” to the unwashed deplorables for the temerity to insist they cut down trees to allow us proles to carry home our meager food stuffs. Wasn’t the eco-terrorists that exclaimed we need to switch to plastic bags because the trees were disappearing? Now, the plastic was degrading the landscape so we need to switch to trees? I can’t keep up with this shit. Phil went on to say I wasn’t even started yet with all the fees, wait until I register my truck and travel trailer and wait until I get my power bill… and when I learn all the rules our overlords have decreed upon high. What the hell have I heaped upon myself, is it too late to cut my loses and escape back to sanity and a modicum of freedom? Phil said , no, I am now here behind enemy lines for eventual combat. suck it up, embrace the suck was my thought. I called ChuckinBama and he laughed his ass too off at my apparent stupidity…and my rage over five fucking cents.
I was considering selling my travel trailer, but now have decided to keep it and also to pare down my belongings I toted around unused for over a year in case I finally get mad enough, or make a judicious escape from this paradise because I pissed some one off higher on the food chain or shot a karen/ken liberal asswipe and it seems that have multiplied since I lived here previously. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I retain my sanity and I not let slip the dogs of sociopathic homicidal beserker.
Here’s a grocery bag tip:
Some stores (Fred Meyer for one) have large plastic bags (with handles) in the produce section with no charge. They’re almost a big as the plastic grocery bags.
I always grab a few when I shop.
I should add that I use the “Self Check Out” to avoid any argument from a cashier.
I understand your feeleings. Last year I was in Tacoma WA. and bought some stuff. Had to pay for the bags there too. 8 cents a bag. Bull Shit.
that word is feelings.
Consider yourself LUCKY. Here in Commiefronia a plastic bag will cost you TEN cents apiece! And that’s a MINIMUM. There’s nothing in the law that keeps grocers from charging MORE. In fact, a while back my wife was shopping at a local Mexican supermarket that will go unnamed (Cardena’s), and the cashier tried to charge her TWENTY-FIVE CENTS per bag! I think “FUCK THAT!!!” was her reply. Other stores won’t give you a bag at all.
The bags that are SOLD now for .10 per are supposedly reusable. They did away with the cheapie single-use bags, the ones that line the bathroom wastebasket than any dog owner knows is used for mining canine gold. Left to the elements, these bags literally disintegrate in a matter of weeks, especially in the desert Southwest sun. The new, “reusable” bags, on the other hand, hold up MUCH better in the weather, and remain tangled in tree branches and laying by the side of the road, full of human detritus, for months, if not YEARS. And if filled with soiled TP or dog crap and thrown in the trashcan, will last many DECADES in the landfill. Nice going, Commiefornia…
I gotta wonder, CederQ; WHY did you move BACK to Hell’ngon???
here in my corner of Colofornia it is 25 cents per bag since january.
I have not paid for one bag yet. Sometimes I fill up my cargo pants to the brim, taking up a lot of valuable time of the checker, but I refuse to pay.
CederQ
Hope you have a decent job lined up to keep the beans on the table and a roof over yer head. Just take a deep breath and start learning the ropes, gotta learn the system before you can figure out how to beat it or a least what can be ignored and what can’t.
Now, being an evil bastard, I can ship you a roll of plastic bags of the kind most stupermarkets use. Makes me smile to wonder what happens when you pull out 5 from your back pocket and ask the lady to put your purchases in them. Hey, you complied with the rule, brought your own plastic. Then again, the store might report you to the authorities for possession of illegal bags and toss you in the hoosegow.
This is a wondrous nation, with much sane diversity, until you reach the coasts and big D owned cities, where it becomes 1984 or Soylent Green.
Stiff upper lip and all that old boy..
Terrapod, I have my social security, a small pension (larger one when I turn 65 next year, YEAH!) and I preform medical chart audits/forensics for a Portland law firm, which, due to the covid clot shot, malpractice suits are exploding out of the roof. I am doing okay. My lips are now stiffened now…I just wished other perturbations at my age would stiffen too
Well, that part of having income is good, seeing both of us are “retired” and like you, so far SS+pension+investments are holding the fort. If things take a crap, may become a greeter or floor jockey at Home Depot, pretty much my home away from home of late given all the maintenance and projects, As to that last dangling bit, YOYO 😉
I am just going to have to take a road trip some day soon to meet Phil and some others over in WA and OR states. Wife wants to go to CA wine country, so that is half the battle right there.
“let slip the dogs of sociopathic homicidal beserker”? (S.H.B.)
Heh. It’s my perception that there are a whole lot of S.H.B. out there that are perhaps one karen incident away from slipping the dogs. And as MVB pointed out, after the first one the rest are free.
Death to tyrants
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I-dee-ho don’t look so bad, does it?
I ship in Idaho as much as possible, won’t buy gas in Washing-dumbiton unless it’s a pittance to get me to Ida-hoho. I don’t buy plastic bags and Costco will give you all the boxes you need to carry stuff!
Enjoy Orey-gun!
SHOP, not ship.
If you prefer:
r/ship/shop
Just don’t shite in Idaho….
Y’all leave Idaho out of this. Think AZ, TX, or TN. That’s what I-84 and I-90 are for.
We’re not in South Dakota any more, Guido.
I’m still laughing. And I’m amazed at the level of stupidity you encounter just by crossing a couple itty-bitty lines on the map…
We must all do our part Cederq. And please make sure to limit the number of items you purchase that are wrapped or encased in thick plastic to a minimum. Or at least have the decency to eat the plastic instead of tossing it out to be safely stored in some landfill.
2 years and a open invitation to come and get lost in the white wilderness.
You wondered about like the tribe in the desert in hot humid snake infested places. And now the middle world of Glen and JL has gone full tard you can’t even drive here unless you’re tattooed, I mean jabbed. Your story reminds me of a friend that decided to move back to his home state of N.J. A few weeks before Christmas he calls me to ask me to pick up a BB rifle for a present for his 10 year old son, and please bring it with you when you come this weekend to hunt and fish. Being a retired captain from the rangers didn’t mean a thing to the state and you must have a firearms card to buy that and a wrist rocket. After a decade of having more of those rules heaped upon him, he now lives in Florida and is again a free person.
Three words, my fine-feathered-friend- Texas or Georgia
I’d rethink the Georgia thing as long as that fat barrage balloon Stacey Abrams is still floating around there.
I know a certain Georgia Divorce Judge has a bench warrant outstanding for me while living way out of state and having a phone session of divorce court with my ex wife and me calling him a crooked, fat bastard,corrupt judge on the take on the open court and then hanging up on him. Thanks the gods his jurisdiction only extends to the state lines. By my faux-paw I lost my share of the house, the new travel trailer we had bought, lucky I had a smaller trailer to go camping and fishing with and got away with my few personal belongings and my truck…. money well lost.
And to think you give me shit about the People’s Republik of NewYorkistan.
Surprise. Commie shitholes exist from ocean to ocean, now.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I hang my head in shame and ignorance…
Just an FYI when you visit the Roseburg Walmart. Be on the lookout for the 6’5″ confused poles and holes thing I saw when shopping there back in June when picking up the granddaughter. Try not to laugh, believe me it was a struggle to just walk past this thing.
Amazon has reusable folding bags we bought just for our trips to Oregon to visit my wife’s family.
My first trip to Central Oregon will be 40 years ago Labor Day weekend, when I went up from Beale AFB to meet my future in-laws. Oregon was a paradise compared to what the California invasion of the 80s did to this once beautiful state.
No cost for grocery bags, no state income tax, no state sales tax, constitutional carry etc. True freedoms while I can still get it. I came from NY and now feel like a child starting summer vacation every day here in New Hampshire.
Yikes!
Speaking of ridiculous taxes/fees, I just literally got my relicense of my ’89 Ford Taurus… 79 bucks for the freakin’ license!! It went up 20-30 dollars because of TAXES/FEES, even though the basic license (we voted on it, fer cryin’ out loud!!) is $35. Bastiches keep tacking on stuff, but the license is only $35, right?
The Leftard Legislature has GOT to GO!!
Count your blessings, my 18 year old VW tags cost 124 and wife’s 2021 Honda CRV is 189 per year and are based on the original value of the car at time of first sale (they screwed us all a few years ago as the law used to read current purchase value, not original). So we pay tax as if we bought it new off the lot, not 12 years later for 3K. Michigan is always grubbing for more revenue. Would move away in a flash only wife’s family is mostly within 100 miles of here.
We bought our ’03 Town & Country new when we still lived in Kalifornia. It has plastic hangers molded into the rear row seat backs SPECIFICALLY for hanging plastic grocery bags. Here in Texas, all stores offer paper and plastic, free. I smile every time we load up at the store.
We have waste baskets, a cat box, and we babysit our grandson who is still in diapers. Occasionally I help myself to a few extra bags.
Care to send a care package to behind enemy lines of plastic bags? I am begging you….
You got it. PM me.
It ain’t easy being cheesy 😱
Oh Cederq! It’s actually worse than that. You missed the back and forth history on the great Oregon bag debacle of 2020 – 2021. Give me a couple days and I will link back to this post and give you what really happened! There is a reason I moved out of there last sept and now live in Kansas. Not only do they ask you if you want paper or plastic here (free of charge of course) but they insist on pushing your groceries out to the parking lot an loading your groceries into your car for you!
Haha fuck that shit. We burn our trash here in the holla.
I live in Pa, do most of my grocery shopping in NY state (love Wegmans), NY did away with the thin bags completely a couple years ago. Probably have 30 of the reusable ones because I usually forget them at home or in the truck because I am a moron. Cost a buck, last quite a while, but they are mostly plastic. Kind of shocked Pa hasn’t done it yet as we try to out stupid NY a lot
Been that way in my neck of the Canadian woods for far too long…
My Hubby is a stubborn bastard who refuses to pay for bags, so he piles everything back into the grocery cart, and then into bins back at the truck.
His words “Fuck them if they think I’m paying for their fucking bags”
😂😂😂