How come this never happened to me before??????

[LAS14]

In 76 years, I have never had a grocery bag break at the bottom because it got wet from the condensation on the milk bottles. It did today. The bottom was soaked and fell apart. They great mystery is, why doesn't this happen all the time? Any ideas?

tia
las

P.S. It might have happened in the first 4 or 5 of those 76 years... I can't be totally sure.

[soothsayer]

1. I am completely willing to blame trump

And it will probably turn out to be true

[EarnestPutz]

2. Climate change? Global warming? Covid 19 affecting brown paper bags?

[LakeArenal]

3. Combination condensation, lightweight bag, crappy glue?

[underpants]

4. Antifa

[louis-t]

5. Nah, antifa would have just sent a senior citizen over to

pretend to fall down and fake bleed on her sidewalk.

[underpants]

8. 🤣

[Bayard]

6. I seriously miss brown paper bags

You could actually stack them across your back seat, they are biodegradable, hold a lot more, and you can use them for lots of other things. Plastic bags get holes in them all the time (really nasty when you're cleaning the litter box).

I've been using my own bags for awhile now, and get really pissed at myself when I forget and leave them in the truck. These days, I wash them after each grocery trip.

[ret5hd]

7. Thanks Obama!

What else could it be???

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. All I know is that my grocery store has been holding out...

... the brown paper bags, which I prefer, for only plastic bags when shopping inside.

I've been getting paper bags during pick-ups, so they obviously have them!

Sorry that happened to you, by the way!

[Shermann]

10. They use all that crappy recycled paper now

I like my grocery bags to made from freshly cut redwoods and white oaks!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Lol!

[Shermann]

14. I like my milk splashed on some cereal

...not my Birkenstocks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Flimsy paper, probably.

Grocery store paper bags seem to be made of thinner paper than they used to. They rip, too, if you don't double bag your groceries.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Luck

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. I think ripping paper bags...

... and "Karen" have been around for several years.

Grocery bagging scene from "Shawshank Redemption" at around the 1:30 mark:

[Shermann]

16. Great scene! nt

[Fla Dem]

17. Lots of humidity increases the sweating on the bottles. Use cloth bags.

[LAS14]

18. Our excellent town no longer allows people to bring...

... their own bags for COVID reasons. But surely it's been really humid before in my lifetime?

I'm thinking the people who are suggesting deteriorating paper quality may be right.