A couple of days ago I wandered down to the Galleria, the local shopping centre, to grab some fruit for lunch.
I went straight into Coles and headed for the fruit and vegetable section to choose a few bits and pieces. I grabbed a plastic bag off the roll for my apples. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get the darn thing to open.
I’ve been using those fruit and vegetable plastic bags for years and I’ll admit that sometimes they are difficult to open but this was ridiculous. It seemed as if it was just one sheet of plastic and that it would never open. I started looking around the area to see if there was a hidden camera anywhere. Was I on some kind of Candid Camera type show? “For our next gag, we’ve replaced the plastic bags at the local supermarket with single sheets of plastic. Let’s watch some idiot try to put their bananas in one of these babies.”
Finally I managed to prize the two sides apart and deposit my apples in the bag. Phew!
I do wonder how those with less nimble fingers than mine cope with these bags. They’re more of a challenge than a Rubik’s Cube.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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This has happened to me also. I always wonder if I have sticky fingers or what.
funny story! 🙂
And I know this, too, I also fight regularly with those bags – they seem to be the same all over the world although there are so many types of them!
Or there are some not-easy-going ones every once in a while to amuse the staff…
I find a bit of human saliva on the fingertips works wonders with these things. Call me crude, but it’s my bag (I see signs informing me that bags are charged at the same price as what they carry), and it’s rather effective.
Ah, so it seems no matter where in the world produce is sold, someone has only invented those bags to put them in! We have them here in Maryland as well.
Usually my children get impatient with me and open them for me!
ah yes rodney i think it’s safe to say most of us have been there and done that
i know how frustrating it can be, i find that it’s best to open them by rubbing the top of the plastic to try and break the seal, then it opens no worries at all. and if it doesn’t open at one end you just have to hope it opens at the other, otherwise you can start looking for the camera and try to pretend nothing happened
Guys, guys, guys. Please, no spit – – just get over to a vegie that has a little of that water that they spray on to keep things fresh and get your fingers wet there – – easy!
You should try doing the bag think dressed as a clown and wearing white cloth gloves! Even with wet fingers (I agree with Joann – please let’s not spit in the shopping centre), the cloth glove thing makes it really hard. And even worse, when you are ‘clowning’ in character and have a non-talking clown, you have to mime for help from others. Very funny!
Jonah
what’s worse than it happening in the supermarket? not being able to open a plastic bag to put a customer’s purchases inside….