Hommage
...to the ordinary shopping-net!
You know, I always have this pink shopping-net in my handbag, and it comes in handy when-ever I am in the supermarket and have to juggle tons of grocery home. It has never-ending space for bottles, lemons, tins, cheese and chicken, but it just does not get any approval in the eyes of the French!
Of course, this here is the country of the Louis Vuitton bag! And also of the foldable Longchamp bag, which should you not have such a bag onboard while on a plane, you basicly are outed immediately as the un-stylish foreigner and deserve only ignorance. My shopping-net at least get's the raised eyebrow, but what really drives me bonkers are the 'pointers' or the 'smirkers'!
I am sure in Germany the shopping net has far more fans. Also, I know barely any German who had not a phase where he owned (and officially used!) a linen bag (known between the natives as 'Jutesack', and nowadays only used by economically correct people).
And of course, not to forget the typical East-German 'Dederon-Beutel', a bag made from the same material as umbrellas! In absence of plastic-bags - they were forbidden should they show ANY enemy (so to speak West-german) advertisment on them - we even made them ourselve from 6 (or 5) material triangles. And it was tough to get some with a nice pattern or good colours.
But here in Paris they do not like my shopping net!
Anyway, I just wanted to say 'Thank you' to the inventor of the shopping net - I love mine and will carry it until death parts us...
