Credible script. Wouldn’t bother me, but then again my general obliviousness gives me a thick skin. Heck, the OP’s presentation wouldn’t really register with me either.
I imagine though that some would find it irritating. This doesn’t necessarily reflect well on me, but I’m more likely to be amused by those flogging all natural sugar water than aggravated.
Personally I refuse to use any product that hasn’t been tested on small,fluffy animals.
Dude I was with you until you said “Santa Cruz”.
What do you expect? Complaining about some neo-hippy waitress in Santa Cruz is like complaining about the waitstaff in the south calling you “Hon.” It comes with the territory and is one of Santa Cruz’s many unique charms. If this is the worst case of this stuff happening to you in SC, well, you haven’t been there that long.
Just remind yourself, you could be living next to a WalMart parking lot in San Jose.
-Sven, who escaped SC after 6 years and still dreams of it at night.
The Wiki article supports you on this (Italics mine)…
Despite Charles Moore’s description above, the eastern garbage patch cannot be characterised as a continuous visible field of densely floating marine debris. The process of disintegration means that the intensity of plastic particulate in much of the affected region may be too small to be seen. Instead, researchers have estimated the overall extent and intensity of plastic pollution in the patch by taking samples. In a 2001 study, researchers (including Moore) found that in certain areas of the patch, concentrations of plastic reached one million pieces per square mile.[8] The study found concentrations of plastics of 3.34 pieces with a mean mass of 5.1 milligrams per square meter.
I believe plastic bags are banned in Tanzania, among other places.
They really are a big problem in Africa. Because they are one of the few signs of modernity that the average person can afford (a run-of-the-mill bag is about a fifth of a cent in Cameroon) people associate plastic bags with clean, modern, good service. Which means that you buy your milk in plastic bags, each kind of vegetable you buy at the market comes in its own plastic bag, your plastic bags come in plastic bags, you get plastic bags for say a packet of soap you bought just a few yards from your house. I’ve had food come to me at restaurants in plastic bags. And even if I refuse a plastic bag, I am forced to take one. It’s over-the-top and extreme. Every week I’d end up with maybe fifty new plastic bags floating around my house.
They do get resused, but they are not great quality so they don’t last too long. Since there is no organized garbage service, they get tossed in the neighborhood trash piles which are burned every week or two. However plastic bags float away, so they end up all over and eventually ground into the dirt roads and yards. In a city you get the impression that the ground is half black plastic.
There are some organizations working on marketing handicrafts made with plastic bags- hammocks, jump-ropes, etc. But this only makes a tiny dent.
I’m with the OP (bet you were waiting for that, OP!). Of course there’s nothing wrong with trying to be environmentally conscious, but there is about being holier than thou about it.
We have a bar here in Belfast that doesn’t serve Coke, only Pepsi, because the collective that owns it doesn’t like Coca-Cola as a company. If I went in and asked for a Coke and the bar person told me they only serve Pepsi, fair enough. If I asked why I couldn’t get a Coke, and they said why they thought the company was unethical or whatever, fair enough. But if they tsk tsked at me when I asked for a Coke, then yes, I probably would get a bit annoyed. It’s the superior attitude that would get me, and, like the OP, I’ve come across that before with environmental types. I don’t think the OP would have asked the waitress how she got to work if she hadn’t been snotty in the first place.
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I don’t know the OP, but the things guys’ll put up with to try and get into a chick’s pants… 