Time to turn in your hippie card, young man

[marydell]

The young hippie guy (ponytail, granola-ish clothes, a little body modding) who was bagging my stuff at the grocery noticed that the bottle for the 100% pure maple syrup was glass, not plastic.

guy: "huh, it's glass, I wonder why?"
me: "maybe that's to make it seem fancy, since it's the pure stuff."
guy: "is that better?"
me: "well, it is if your kid can't have the regular kind. I like the regular stuff better, but it's made of corn syrup and other stuff."
guy, looking puzzled: "then what is this made from?"
me: "trees."
guy: *looks incredulous*
me: "yeah, maple trees."
guy: "oh, wow. Wild!"

Comments

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Agree - I've always lived in cities, too, but a lot of people grow their own veggies around here, because we have really good soil and it rains a lot. And the farm country tends to be right next to the cities...US cities have a bad case of sprawl, so the cities end up putting tentacles into the country. Here in IN and IL, seeing corn fields next to the mall isn't uncommon, because new malls always go up on the outskirts of towns.