Monthly shopping with shopping trolley

I usually do my grocery shopping for the whole month. I do that because I can’t afford to buy anything I really don’t need. It’s also stupid even if I could afford it. It’s because I don’t have a driving licence, but mostly because I want to save our environment that I choose to do my shopping on foot with my shopping trolley.

It might not look all that cool to use one, but a lot has changed since those beige tartan checked ones that I remember from my childhood. And isn’t our environment worth some sacrifices?

Today I was up early to do my shopping. I imagined it would be less crowded at that time, but I was wrong. The store was filled with elderly women and men. Mostly women. Men seem to be the ones to do the weekend shopping. The few men that I saw were pushing the shopping carts and the women picked up the groceries.

These older people didn’t seem all that thrilled about shopping. At least they were in a bad mood. All of them seemed to feel that I was blocking their way with my shopping trolley. Not them, with their big shopping carts or walkers. Where are all the little ladies I remember from my childhood? The ones who dragged around their small shopping trollies on foot to pick up their milk and loaf of bread.

Lots of today’s new retired people drive around in their big expensive petrol drinking cars and their cold cuts and semi-manufactured articles. These babyboomers that never had to think about what they spent. Those who just fell into the job market and landed great jobs effortlessly and are now living off fat pensions. They seem to think that worrying about the environment is for others. They can afford to do as they please. Someone else will have to worry about their grandkids.

Those old people, who were sneering at me and my trolley, were using up just as much space in the store, but clearly I was the one who was in the way. Despite that, I’m not going to cave under the pressure. I’ll keep pulling my trolley for the sake of the environment, no matter how uncool it may look. Though I am considering doing my shopping late in the evening. Maybe then I’ll be allowed to shop too.

~ by irispolaris on 13 November, 2008.