Ordinary Gweilo

Today is No Plastic Bag Day.  The first one was such a success that it has now become a monthly event, but on the first Tuesday of each month so as not to inconvenience too many people.

I went to the supermarket during the last NPB day, and was fully prepared to pay $1 for my plastic carrier bag, but the helpful assistant gave me a dozen or so small bags instead.  Well, er, thanks, but doesn’t that rather defeat the object of the exercise? 

I think they must have special training courses for supermarket checkout staff to teach them to stuff everything inside small bags first before they put them into bigger bags.  Changing this mad policy would do a whole lot more than charging for carrier bags one day a month, but I suppose that every little helps.