FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 22, 2009

how could he manage to lift that much weight?

Tofu and eggplant don’t weigh that much.

Being lazy by nature, I make every effort to carry all the grocery bags in on the first trip. It can be as many as seven or eight bags. The experience is made easier by using bags with handles, so that I can slip them up my arm and continue to add bags up to the point that I can tolerate.

I worked with those lazy people who would carry two bags of cement at a time while I would do that in two trips!

I normally bring in all the groceries in a single trip. But I have to make sure that the bread and eggs are in the outside bags!

I would have said pretty much the same thing as cleokaya… if I had commented eleven hours earlier.

Somehow, I find it difficult to correlate being lazy with carrying so much that one risks both tractor beam generator and cargo (so to speak) in the process. It seems to me that would be harder work, not easier work. It may take less energy overall to make two trips, and it can be a lot safer.

I have a friend who sometimes seems to have the same self-contradictory concept of “laziness = overwork”. I keep thinking he’s going to break something, in himself or in the load, quickly or slowly. But, there’s no persuading him, unless he’s so overloaded that he’s forced to make two trips…

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