Plastic bags (London)

After 18 years at Belfiore Lodge in Highbury, I had to move out.

As I was packing up nearly two decades of accumulated possessions and taking them to the charity shop, one of my evening class students asked me if I needed any plastic bags. 

My answer: “Listen, I’m the Imelda Marcos of plastic bags!”

(London, 2003) 

* For those of you who don't understand the reference to Imelda Marcos:  she was the wife of President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, famous for her collection of 600 pairs of shoes.