It was a slow transition,
but is has now arrived.
The sweet art of grocery store
bagging has come to a final end.
I was always taught to place items
I’d like to purchase on the supermarket
conveyor belt in the order in which they
should be bagged.
Heaviest items first,
then lighter items,
and finally any loaf of bread
of carton of eggs.
And to keep frozen items
together as best as possible,
so they don’t start to unfreeze and
get other grocery items wet.
This act of organizing is now moot
as the current generation of supermarket
baggers has no apparent concept of the
weight or composition of items to be bagged.
On a recent trip to the store,
the two bags of frozen hashbrown potatoes
was carelessly bagged directly on top of my
fresh loaf of bread.
When confronted with this egregious error,
the bagger, checker or whichever title is appropriate
met my critique with silence and an indifferent shrug,
as if to say that it was clearly a “me” problem.
So now the world crumbles,
as indifference takes root in the cherished
and untarnished realm of supermarket baggers,
now, lost forever.
This is the true loss of innocence.
Not the wars, the hatred, the disinformation,
not the genuine loss of respect for traditions; nay,
we are lost when indifference smushes our bread.
I hear you!
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