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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Well I like it. So there ! (stamps heel and exits stage left.)

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

Kudos to the man on the flying trapeze for common sense and scot47 for a sense of humor.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Inability to laugh at yourself is the first sign that you have stayed too long in KSA. Another sign is when you throw a wobbly at the supermarket checkout because they have given you too many plastic bags.

brasscat · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: Plastic bags in the KSA

The most useful thing you get at a KSA supermarket is the plastic bag. Makes fine trash bags and dandy lunch bags for work.
brasscat

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It still works like that. I witnessed a colleague the other day throwing a fit because the bag packer used too many plastic bags. "Bad for the environment," he said. The Bengali plastic bag filler at the checkout clearly thought this Khawaja was demented.

I too, like brasscat, use the bags for other things.

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

In the good old Houston of U.S.A., one can still opt for paper bags, and there is a real U.S. citizen bagging for you for actual wages. A pimply high-school part-timer, no doubt, but no slave, except to his/her iPod. Before you gasp, note that the paper is recycled, and at least it's biodegradeable. What I don't like about plastic bags, even though I usually accept them passively, is how you put them in your trunk or back seat and by the time you get home, the yoghurt is underneath the spare tire (coating it with strawberry cream), the bottled drinks are smashed to smithereens, and the nail clipper has undoubtedly been sucked into a wormhole to another dimension, never to be seen again...except, perhaps, in a parallel universe in which EFL instructors are actually respected and well-paid.

MixtecaMike · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 643 Location: Guatebad

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

trapezius · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:

brasscat · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: Other uses

The Saudi plastic bag is great for carrying things privately, i.e. graded tests. I can carry CDs and books easily on the bus.

Also great for bridge night for bringing munchies to the game.
brasscat

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Brasscat
These munchies will have to stop. You know what the dietician said about your eating habits.

brasscat · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: True About The Diet

I have been good lately on the junk food. However, I won't give-up my apple tea and Turkish Delights.

Sounds like another trip coming on.
David

MixtecaMike · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 643 Location: Guatebad

sharter · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 878 Location: All over the place

Saudi sounds like a real blast Wink

Ever so glad I got out before 'the plastic bags phase'.