The argument started over a plastic bag.
In the middle of Walmart, surrounded by almost $300 worth of groceries, a customer found themselves being scolded by an employee demanding $15 an hour—over how many bags they were using. The worker didn’t like the double-bagging. The customer didn’t like their groceries ripping through the floor. Logic twisted. Tempers flickered. And then, like some bizarre word problem ripped from a textbook, the employee suggested “just split the items” between two bags… without calling it double-bagging. The crowd watched, half-confused, half-entertained, as the customer compared it to “Common Core math,” trying to make sense of a solution that changed nothing but the vocabulary. The punchline? The bags, the cost, the effort—all the same. Only the argument kept multip…

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