Some of you may have heard that there was this drive by some major supermarkets to get Singaporeans to buy reusable bags and use them in place of plastic bags.

Well, I was at Cold Storage today and I saw the reusable bags on sale. So, in a moment of environmental friendliness, I decided to buy one. The bag was a foldable one, no large than a cough mixture bottle.

So i picked up the little package and went to the cashier to make my purchase. Imagine my surprise when the cashier looked at me and said, "Would you like a bag for that?". Talk about contradictions....