Valentine's Day

Due to conflicting schedules, I didn't get to see much of Sheri on Valentine's day. I spent my day busing around town running errands and buying groceries. I haven't been on a bus in a while and I really enjoyed it. Busing is better than driving for the following reasons:

• You don't need to worry about somebody hit-and-running your bus while it's parked
• You don't need to worry about your bus getting stolen or broken into
• You don't need to worry about getting in an accident (at least not the liability and insurance woes)
• You can read or do other stuff while traveling
• You can people watch and eavesdrop

 I won't be getting a bus pass though because they are plastic. We're being fairly dogmatic about our rules.

The downside of buses is that you need to carry everything you have with you. This can be tricky for multi-stop shopping. Fortunately none of the shops minded me walking past the til with already full bags. Unfortunately light bags get heavy the longer you carry them. Good exercise though.

My last stop was at Awesome Blossom to pick up a rose for Sheri. I was getting pretty tired and didn't even realize that the flower was wrapped in plastic and had a little plastic test tube looking thing on the stem. I felt dirty all the way home.

Sheri arrived home shortly after me and we had just enough time to walk over to Tumbleweeds pub and have a romantic Valentines Lupper (Sunch?). As usual we warned our server that we didn't want any plastic and that if we got any we'd need to put it in our box of shame. While she didn't give us any straws, she gave Sheri 2 disposable plastic dippy bowls made out of... plastic!

OK, I need to update our box of shame.

On the plus side, a teller at The Great Canadian Super Store was commending us on our use of mushroom bags for our bulk good when I mentioned our project and was given a high five. I estimate we get about nine enthusiastic reaction for every slightly weirded out reaction from people we tell about this project. Folks seem to like the idea, hopefully more people join in and we can start to make some market pull towards a more sustainable future.

-Miles