Plastic wrap

[indigo_rose99]

Every day my snack comes wrapped in plastic wrap. As if that could ward off the bad germs.My lunch comes similarly plastic-wrapped, each dish carefully covered. Not that I can or would want to eat most of them (sandwiches or now-cold chicken and rice), but still they are securely wrapped.

At first I thought it was kinda cute. But then I started going in the stores. In the bookstores, most books are covered in plastic wrap. ...Perhaps they were shipped that way? But I've never seen so many books in plastic wrap in other countries!

And shoes. In shoe stores, a good number of the shoes on display are also wrapped in plastic.

Why so enamored of plastic wrap?