Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Excuse me, hi...
I'd like to return this bag, please.















Have you been to IKEA lately?
They charged us 5 cents for a plastic bag. Michael went to buy candles and pillows, and came back with all that and a 5 cent plastic bag.

IKEA is the new Starbucks - consumption with a conscience. They donate those five cents to an environmental cause. To offset the damage, presumably, that might be inflicted on the environment by the haphazard continued use of such plastic bags -- which probably cost a thousandth of a cent each, imported en masse from some other international economy. Sounds like a profit center, eh? Possibly one involving some kind of charitable write-off?

But not to be cynical… Leave me to my own conscience, please. I was just after the candles, really. Let me save the world on my own dime. I’ll need that nickel back, though…




















I’d like to return this bag, please.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ya and San Francisco just outlawed plastic bags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brody the Bulldog said...

Man - that's so lame!

Why not just make the candles a whole $3.00?
... I guess that would make too much sense.

Anonymous said...

That's a smart pup!!!

Anonymous said...

LOVE WHAT YOU DID TO HER BACK YARD! O H M Y GOD! What a difference....... Hope Harmoney will come back. Perhaps she is meditating on one of those rocks....