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Paper or Plastic? Both…

I ran over to the grocery store to pick up a ream of typing paper (technically speaking: did not actually run, paper isn’t for the typewriter) and some sodas. Ended up buying four items. The young man bagging at the end of the counter put my items in three separate bags, and the soda six-pack was left out completely.

Lucky, I guess. Could have been four items in four separate bags.

Even at that, he was struggling to figure it out, because the ream of paper was bulky and wouldn’t set up correctly. He ended up spreading them all over the bottom of a shopping buggy for me to roll out. I guess I was looking pretty weak (even though I’d just carried the four items up to the checkout).

I reached into the paper bag and said, “let’s try this.” I stood the paper on edge, set the sodas in beside and dropped the two plastic bags on top. “Works for me,” he replied.

Bagging was an art form when I was his age, back before they invented plastic.

Try this one: Paper or Plastic? by Daniel Imhoff: The deceptively simple supermarket choice echoed in the title looms large in a society on a collision course with the planet’s life-support systems. Do we clearcut forests, process pulp, and bleach it with chlorine to make paper bags? or refining hydrocarbon into handy plastics? About half the total volume of America’s municipal solid waste is packaging.

Thanks to all Past (and future) Customers & Clients!

This week marks the beginning of our fifth year of bookselling as Broken Arrow’s Main Street bookstore. Still, there are people who come in every day (this has been a literal truth for the past four years) who say “I had no idea there was a bookstore here!”

“Yes,” I reply. “Been here for years.”

The sign out front says “Since 1975.” Obviously, I haven’t been selling books from this location that long, but I’ve been buying and selling books since then. One of my original entrepeneurial efforts (1975) had me shuffling merchandise to free up a wall for selling books.

It reminds me of the quote from comedian Steven Wright (a genius I was fortunate to once meet), who said: “I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, “Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.” He said, “Not in a row.” ”

So, in that spirit, I’ve been selling books for 35 years… I think I’ll change the sign to read, “open 24 hours.”

Too Hot to Cook? Read a Cookbook!

Even if the grill has overheated in the summertime sun – you can recline under the fan or air conditioner and read up on those exciting meals you’ll prepare when it cools off again. Just in – used copies (sort of scarce…) of Joy of Cooking and the red and white plaid Better Homes cookbook. (Used to have this one myself.)

A large collection of alternative history fiction – Harry Turtledove – in mass market paperback, has just found a spot on the shelves, as have titles by Steve Berry, James Patterson, and others in suspense.

Visit the (air conditioned) store on Main Street in Broken Arrow, OK.

Home Employment opportunities: http://workfrommyhomemom.com

Tulsa Hispanic Connection: http://tulsahispano.com

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