The other day, I went to Home Depot and bought two packs of yard bags and a spray bottle of Roundup. Three items total, cost about $10. Pictured at right is the register receipt for this transaction. It's two inches wide and a record-setting eight feet long. It includes the actual receipt, a gift receipt ("Happy Anniversary, Dear. I got you weedkiller!"), a long paragraph on their return policy, a longer paragraph describing how to get a $1 mail-in rebate, several coupons for other products, an invitation to apply for a Home Depot credit card, another invitation to participate in a "brief" telephone survey, and the Reader's Digest version of War And Peace. I folded it up and put it in my wallet, but then I couldn't get my wallet in my pocket.
Weren't we supposed to be a "paperless society" by now? And where the hell is my jet pack?
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