OK, so admittedly I was one of the many that rose at 5am last Wednesday morning to queue outside Sainsbury's to get 'the' bag.
The Anya Hindmarsh bag that had been unashamedly push, shoved and mashed into our faces as the must-have item for 2007. The Anya Hindmarsh bag that Keira Nightly was papped lugging through the mean streets of london. The Anya Hindmarsh bag that managed to completely lose it's whole meaning due to it's own success.
In the queue I listened to the minions rambling about which mag they'd seen it in ('So what's she called? The one who designed it 'an all?) and I signed.
Not one person was there in support of the cause, and not one person would use it for it's realy purpose.
But do you know what really, REALLY grated me???
Every single person in the queue in front of me, after paying their £5 for a canvas bag emblazoned with the words 'I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG' then proceeded to place it in a Sainsbury's plastic bag.
I ask you, is it me?? I stood aghast at the sight infront of me. I even commented to the cashier guy who rolled his eyes in sympathy with my frustration. I approached a woman swinging her plastic carrier bag on the way out of the store, and her only comment was that she didn't want to get it dirty! I mean, seriously, some people!
So where do I go from here? To Ebay to purchase one for £200, or to wearewhatwedo.org to guiltily pledge more money to make up for the retards I queued with....
You decide.....
hf148
hmmmm. consumerism gone crazy eh? I've already had a moan about this sort of thing on my blog. Probably lots of the people who queued up for this environmentally friendly bag drove to the supermarket and drove home again, don't give a toss for the environment and would still covet the bag even if it were made by blind orphans in Darfur.