NY Prep

 

I'm starting to pack for my trip to New York on Friday (I have to take a lot with me  - I wish I had Mary Poppins' carpet bag.)

One thing I am making sure to bring is a large container full of plastic bags to give to my Great-Aunt. No, it isn't for her 93rd Birthday today, but just to make things easier for her because New York has made things more difficult for her.

New York State has really gone downhill lately and among that they don't use plastic bags anywhere anymore and the bags you do get in the stores (paper or reusable) you have to pay for - I learned that the hard way when I was in New York in September 2022.

We used to make fun of the Europeans when I lived in Germany and Russia saying that America was known as the "Land of the Free" because you got free drink refills, free use of public bathrooms and free bags at stores - when you had to pay for those things in Europe.

New York is slowly becoming the land of the unfree. The reusable bags that are currently available are small and can only hold 3-4 items (making them not convenient when you are doing a week's worth of shopping at once.

We can still get free plastic bags everywhere in my State. I am reusing them by bringing them to my Great-Aunt to use.

She also gives them to her Neighbors and Friends and they all act as though they are doing something illegal  - like I need to take them to the alley to give them the bags and hope we don't get arrested.

New York State should pay more attention to more important things (like how many innocent Elderly they purposely inflected with Covid when they forced the infected into Nursing Homes and then under-reported the deaths because they knew what they were doing was illegal and immoral or their high crime and death rates) rather than bags.

FYI: I don't need a lecture on how Price Chopper is now called "Market 32." Some stores are still just called Price Chopper and the ones that aren't are officially called "Market 32 by Price Chopper"  - read the signs (there's always some unintelligent person that tries to correct me.) They only changed the name partially so they could raise the prices on everything so you pay a lot more for the same exact item as before.