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Canvas Bags

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Last updated on: June 3, 2015

Back in March, I was in the checkout line at my local farmers market when the checker asked, “Paper or plastic?”

“Damn it!” I yelled, loud enough for everyone to hear. “I forgot my canvas bags again!”

I don’t usually make a scene and I’m normally a very considerate guy. But on that day, I decided the environment took precedence over good manners, and I was willing to embarrass myself. I didn’t care that my car was in a huge parking lot nowhere near the entrance or that several people would have to wait or change lines. It was time to take a stand—to make a change.

I apologized to everyone behind me in line. Then, once again talking loudly enough for all to hear, I declared my intentions.

“I have no choice,” I said, “but to teach myself a lesson. I’m going to go out there in the freezing cold and retrieve my environmentally friendly eco conscious canvas bags! It’s the only way I’ll learn to remember!”

Three steps out, I turned around and walked back in.

Everyone was staring at me.

“The hell with that,” I said. “It’s freakin’ snowing out there!”

Everyone laughed, I think, except the people waiting in my checkout line.

The next time I went grocery shopping I forgot my canvas bags again. To be honest, I still only remember them 10% of the time.

There’s no doubt about it. I’m going to hell.

Not in a handbag, or in a canvas bag, but in a plastic bag that never decomposed.




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Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards

Owner at Organic Lifestyle Magazine
Michael Edwards is the founder, owner, editor-in-chief, and janitor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine. At age 17, Michael weighed more than 360 pounds. He suffered from allergies, frequent bouts of illness, and chronic, debilitating insomnia. Conventional medicine wasn’t working. While he restored his health through alternative medicine he studied natural health and became immersed in it.

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Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards