Dear So and So

[susiej]

Dear Supermarket bagger of highschool age
I know it is really hard to understand, but the reason I arrived with my stuff in the brown paper bag was so that I didn't have to take a plastic bag.
When I then explained to you that I wanted it all in 1 bag, so you emptied my brown bag and one of the plastic bags and stuck it all in one plastic bag, except for my parsnips which did not make it into ANY bag. So when I was driving out and you stopped me, thanks for giving me the parsnips in the second plastic bag...
(pulling out hair now)

don't they get it??

Nope. And they don't get it when I say "paper, no plastic" either, and pull the paper bag out of the plast and put the plastic bag on the counter.

Nor does anyone understand why I don't want one large item (a dozen toilet paper rolls, say) in one bag.

They DO seem to get it when you hand them a non-disposable bag (like the kind Whole Foods sells).

Then again, they're getting paid to work as fast as possible, and making a decision about number of bags for every customer would slow that down.