Mom: I’m going to throw that bag away. I don’t know why they sent it to me. Look! It has a velcro on it that doesn’t go to anything!
Me: Watch – it folds into itself, the other velcro is under this flap, see?
Mom: And what good does that do?
Me: It’s a grocery bag, Mom, you take it to the store with you and you bring your groceries home in it. It’s to save plastic.
Mom: WHAT! And what are you going to buy at the store that folds up flat into itself!!?
February 1, 2008 at 11:57 pm
You shoulda told her it was a tote bag. Everybody loves tote bags. Especially moms.
February 2, 2008 at 12:05 am
Bacon rolls up flat too. Good call.
I was in a mommy group when I was a nanny, and it’s true. We painted enough tote bags in that club to save an entire plastic rain forest. True story.
February 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Hahahaha!! Mothers can be so DUMB. It is just awful how we so quickly fall from grace when our babies grow up….pout.
I have one that’s even WORSE that you’ll get some laugh mileage out of this one. When Dad and I were 1st married back in the 70’s, our electricity went out during a storm. He has NEVER let me live down my question: Jon, does the toilet still flush when the electricity’s off?
Shades of Jessica Simpson…color me red.
Or fed.
February 6, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I myself once wondered why the sink still works in a power outage.