Suddenly, without any input from the public (as usual) our government has introduced a program where there is a 20-cent deposit on wine and liquor bottles.  Now, that might seem sensible – I’m all for 'green' policies…

BUT (here's the stupid part):  In order to get your deposit back, you have to turn in your bottles at The Beer Store…  (not the Liquor Store, or the Wine Store).

I don't drink beer.  I have no other reason to go to The Beer Store, and it’s much further away than the Liquor & Wine Store.

Doing the math… I reckon I can carry, at best, 8 wine bottles that distance without collapsing.  It will be a 40-minute round trip, and I will likely need/want an hour’s nap afterwards. 

Does this seem wrong, or is it just me ? 

Desperately searching for another way around it… I could take the bus… that would cost me $5.50 for the round trip, showing a net loss of $3.90  

Or, I could buy a little red wagon ($11.99 US + shipping & handling)… it’s looking like I could get maybe 36 bottles in there ($7.20)… but where would I store the bottles, while I’m accumulating that quantity, and, where would I store the wagon ? 

( ...must say, I don’t much fancy the picture of myself hauling a wagonload of wine bottles down the street, either... ) 

I currently have 2 empty wine bottles sitting on my kitchen counter.  I’m getting tired of looking at them.  Methinks they’re about to go into the Recycling Bin, just like they used to -- and just like they used to, they’ll be 'recovered' by the neighbour-guy who is into making his own wine.  Now that's recycling  ...I can be somewhat happy with that. 

But the government has successfully swindled me for 40¢, haven't they ?    @#*!

This has been your hormone report from Canada.