My bananas need four handles! Actually they don’t…

People don’t give a shit about the environment. Got that? They really don’t. I am sure you do, I’m sure you walk to the shops with your reusable bags and worry about food miles and sustainability as do I, a lot! But look around next time you are in your local supermarket, do you feel like you’re in the majority? No, you don’t.

I saw something the other day that really brought this home to me. A man was buying bananas. Nothing wrong with that, I live in the UK and eat bananas (Fairtrade natch) and until global warming really sets in, they will clock up food miles. That wasn’t my issue. My issue was that he had put them in a produce bag and tied the handles together, then proceeded to put the bag in another bag. That’s right folks, bananas in a bag in another bag and that was all the bag contained.

Now if creationists are to be believed then the humble banana makes a mockery of Darwinism because of its perfect hand fitting shape, therefore I can’t help thinking that a bunch of bananas doesn’t really need one handle let alone four.

It was all I could do not to follow him out of the shop screaming “It’ll be your fault when we have to live on the tops of mountains because that’s the only landmass left but you’ll be dead, what do you care?” I didn’t though, I did what every good UK citizen would do and tutted under my breath.

My point is this. I don’t care if you want to put one item in each bag and carry your shopping home in relays, that’s really up to you. But for the love of Jebus, can you please get some reusable bags or at the very least bring your stockpile of bags from the last trip to the supermarket and use them again, you won’t even have to buy bags then! Then you won’t get tutted at by me. Thanks.