Yes, the fee wasn’t meant to be a money grab or a revenue center for merchants but a deterrent for citizens asking for bags or wastefully using them. And its imposed (usually) by the local government. Altruistic corporate bag bans are few & far between but at least not unheard of (thinking of you, my local Wegmans 👍-- yes plastic bags are still not even partially banned where I live but some stores have a no-plastic policy).
Some cities only have a ban on free plastic bags. One can still take their purchases home in a plastic bag if they refuse to try carrying their own bags, but they must buy the bags.
Some cities were able to move on from this semi-ban to a full ban on plastic bags. But the semi-ban can still be very very contentious to get enacted.
Oh it looks like a train engine! How fun! Can we see the whole of the new scratchy thing?
With that amount of openness, going down half a size will be doable. Where you may run into trouble is if the little strap across your toes will be too tight. What’s the return policy?
I have horrible face blindness and even I recognized OP’s pic was not Tim Curry, lol
“KNEEL BEFORE NEIL!!”
We prefer the term “frogorgy”
This looks heavenly.
Until I feel a sneeze coming on.
Rolling up to the Paul McCartney farewell tour.
Ooh good idea! My cats have had something similar to OPs toy. They loved it at first, then grew tired.
Then I got the mat accessory, which is like a big pocket made out of the spring wire sun shades for cars, and the toy contained inside mimicked a panicked mousie. They loved playing with that. Then grew tired.
A new venue for the coked up ‘mouse’ toy would probably rekindle their interest for a couple of weeks.
Happy little trees!
If they are really manipulative about it post-gettogether, call in a welfare check on them. Maybe they get annoyed at having to convince authorities they are not suicidal. Maybe they get to spend a couple days in a hospital where they get to share their feelings and be challenged on what it is that causes them to feel that way.
The normies at the kennel club dog shows.
Did your wife talk him into laying in the hallway just to test your awareness? Or did he figure he was going to prank Dad all on his own?
I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.
“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”
“People used to live to be 900 years old.”
Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.
Yeah, my initial take was self-degradation. Interesting to see the variety of interpretations.
And in case self-degradation is what OP meant, I tend to remind myself “would I say that in that way to my bestie?” Pretending I’m mentoring a vulnerable kid/teen is also working.
You act like I don’t already sing it daily to my cats.
I assume hyper-stretchy clothing isn’t a reality yet? Getting caught in a rain storm would be inconvenient. I think I would still go with water growing. I need near complete darkness to sleep. And glowing skin would be hella annoying in a movie theater.
Wait, how do I drink water? Get slightly bigger then shrink back?