"It's not easy being green."

- Kermit the Frog

I've been trying to help out the environment by doing just a few things differently. One of those things is trying not to use plastic bags at the grocery store and bringing canvas bags from home. Well, the problem is that I keep forgetting to bring my canvas bags to the store with me, so I always end up taking my groceries out to the car in no bags. Usually this is no big deal because I don't have much stuff.

The other day I went to HEB and I forgot my canvas bags again. Unfortunately, this time I also bought a ton of groceries. Instead of carting them out to our car and then loading them in my trunk, I decided that I could just carry them all the way from the register to our car. Well, I delicately balanced all the groceries in my arms and started walking out to my car. Every 3 or 4 steps, a couple of groceries would tumble to the ground and I would have to awkwardly bend over and pick them up, only to lose a few more groceries.

I saw a young man who obviously worked for HEB and just as I thought he was going to offer to help me, he said:

"are you......like.........trying to help the environment?"

me: "yes."

him: "oh."

WALKS RIGHT BY ME!!!!

Moral of the story: I need to go load my canvas bags into my trunk right now while I'm thinking about it! Bye!