Everybody Loves My Bag... Now.

This is my favorite blue "shopping bag." I have had it now for almost ten years! It was a gimme from a forgotten event. I have been carrying it and using it before it was fashionable to do so, evoking sighs and eyes rolled skyward from many a supermarket check-out clerk. But NOW, they often say: "What a cool bag!"
I have lots of bags. I use this one the most. When I do a lot of shopping, I put all my veggies and fruits in this bag. What is the point of using a reusable bag if you are only going to fill it with a bunch of little plastic produce bags? So I put the onions and potatoes in first and anything else that won't get too squished. then everything goes in according to it's squishability. I hate those little stickers on my produce and I sure don't like adding another one. (Thanks to Suzy and her CSA, I don't have to put up with too many). I take those stickers and fold them in half, hand them to the checker with the bag and let them know that these are the stickers for the 8 things in my bag. Most checkers love this. (I used to stick the stickers back to back, but it really messed up the fast checkers and things tended to get scanned twice). Most checkers think this is a grand idea. The grumpy and/or suspicious checker is now a rarity.