As a progressive city, Austin is really making an effort to swim with the latest trends. No smoking anywhere, parks totally off limits for smoking or pooping dogs, back in parking on major streets which has only made things worse (traffic wise), all kinds of weird rulings, stay exactly 3 feet away from bicycles, walk only on the right side of the street on odd numbered days (just kidding) but the list goes on and on. The slogan for Austin is "Keeping Austin weird." No problem there.
So, today in the paper, it says the City MAY ban MOST paper and plastic bags. This is to start in 2016, hopefully by then some of the weirdness from our City Council will be gone. Now, don't get me wrong, I am all in for the plastic, I recycle faithfully. I do... I use the plastic bags to pick up dog poop and cigarette butts in the park or when the neighbors don't have the courtesy to pick it up, I use them to put garbage in, I take some back to the store so they can reuse them. I get it... but I don't want to be told what to do with stuff. Especially when it comes to dragging in those tacky green grocery bags to and from our cars. I honestly have to be reminded to drag those in and out of my car, my home and the grocery store. ARGH!!
Maybe instead of employees to assist us, we can go thru the self-checkout lines and then have monkeys carry out our groceries in non-paper/plastic bags. Thats good right, keeping costs down by doing it all yourself. Then let the city council figure out how to pick up the Monkey poop.
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