brand new bag

Are you one of those people who goes to the grocery store and, when checking out, realizes that you forgot your reusable shopping bag? You say "Oh no, I left it in the car," or "It's hanging on the door at home." You begrudgingly take a paper or plastic bag, feeling guilty rather than green as you singlehandedly deepen the footprint that humans are leaving on the planet?

I'm here to tell you not to worry. It's fine, really. Just the fact that people are aware of it at all is progress. We have decades of plastic-bag-use to recondition, it's not going to happen overnight. Soon enough you will remember to bring that bag out of your house and into your car. Then out of your car and into the store. I've noticed a lot of people just scraping the whole idea and going sans bag, period.

So worry not, eco-conscious friends. I'msure you'll remember to bring that bag instinctively, especially when we start charging you for paper or plastic :)