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Fun Fact: Stores have a competition to see who can spread your items across the most plastic shopping bags.
Panel One: Drawing of a cut-away view of a shopping bag. Circles of various sizes, representing grocery items, fill the bag.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: Thanks!
Panel Two: Cut-away view of two shopping bags. One has one large item, the other has four smaller items.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: Oh, that’s easier to carry.
Panel Three: Same view of two shopping bags, only the one with one large item is now double- bagged.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: Double-bagging the big stuff makes sense…
Panel Four: Cut-away view of three shopping bags. One is double-bagged with one large item, the other two have two items each.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel:That’s a bit wasteful…
Panel Five: Cut-away view of three shopping bags, same as last panel, but now they are all double-bagged.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: You just put five items in six bags.
Panel Six: Cut-away view of five shopping bags, all double-bagged with one item each.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: OK! I give up! I’ll buy a reusable bag!
Panel Seven: Cut-away view of one double-bagged shopping bag with one item — a reusable shopping bag.
Voice One, off-panel: Here you go!
Voice Two, off-panel: AUGH!
Hover text: The high I feel when I actually remember to bring my reusable bags to the store–and take them inside rather than leaving them in the parked car–can last for days.
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.
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