For the sake of keeping the thread on task..........
So I'm at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15/hr "monitors" me. Then this exchange happens...
Her - Why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - Excuse me?
Her - You are wasting out bags!
Me - If you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - That's not my job, this is the self check-out area!
Me - Okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's alright with you?
Her - Why are you using two bags?!
Me - Because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - Well, that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag, then you wouldn't need to double bag them.
Me - So you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag?
Her - Exactly!
Me - So... I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - No, because you wouldn't be double bagging them.
Me - Okay, try to keep up here.... So here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice doubled up. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in THIS single bag and the juice in THAT single bag, I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her - No because you are not double bagging them, so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show!!!
Me - Is this like that new "Common Core" math I keep hearing about that they are teaching kids now days?
Her - Never mind..... You just don't get it!
And with that, she went back up to her little podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.