Ive just been the victim of a heinous crime. I feel so violated.
So I'm down at the local laundromat, it's really close to my place so I leave between cycles, my stuff is in the dryer, when I come back my laundry bag is gone!!! Okay it's not like it's a designer laundry bag, but it is mine and it's handy, it's is cotton, a good size, with a draw string top. Paid $1.15 at the local dollar store for it, had it for about two years, getting a little tattered,
probably need another in a few months, but still.
My problem is that whoever took it knew that it wasn't their's, they knew that whoever it did belong to would need it to transport their clean clothes back home. What a shitty thing to do for a bag worth $1.15, if they asked me for some money I would probably given them some, well unless it was that guy I see almost daily, who never recognizes me, and always approaches with the some line, even him, it is a very recent thing that I am refusing him! And I feel guilty about refusing him his 'something to eat'.
Anyway, then I had to buy a plastic bag from a vending machine, $.75!!!! It's not nearly as nice as my cotton laundry bag, maybe even single use, it's big, it's white, but somehow just seem like it belongs to me, you know what I mean?
The problem is not the $1.90, the problem is what people see as their entitlement, "there is something that I can use, I think I will make it mine" with no concern for the person left behind.
When did we become so indifferent to respecting other peoples lives, other peoples stuff. The primacy of I want, therefore I will take. When did this happen? Gradually or all at once, I didn't notice?
Okay, Okay, it's really about the $1.90.
3 comments:
This is ridiculous - why would someone take a laundry bag? Its value and use would be so minimal to anyone except the one individual who was in the midst of using it to transport their laundry.
Sometimes I think people do things in an effort to prove that they can - excerting small amounts of power and control over the things around them. Like blarring loud music in the car to prove that it is their car and no one else gets a say.
Or maybe someone just really liked your laundry bag.
I really fear that my laundry bag is being used in some sick sex ritual.
i blame the Industrial Revolution, (for just about everything), but in this case I believe that you are right, someone took my bag because they could. Never asking themselves if they should. This attitude has existed since the I.R.
when we all converted to the religion of technology.
We didn't all convert to the religon of technology - I worship a maple tree growing in the park behind my building. I like to be contrary.
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