A cashier often gives a customer a choice of bags and asks, “Paper or plastic?” A joke situation occurs when a robber asks to put money in a bag.
“Robber: put the money in the bag!! Victim: paper or plastic???? Lol” was posted on Twitter on March 11, 2011. “This dude store gettin rob she tell him to put the money n the bag he ask paper or plastic” was posted on Twitter on November 20, 2011.
“A cashier asked me if I wanted paper or plastic. I told her: ‘just put the money in a fucking bag!’” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on November 18, 2017.
Other “paper or plastic?” jokes include “Paper or plastic?”/“Either. I’m bisacktual” and “Paper or plastic for my French bread? I don’t care. Just baguette.”
Twitter
Nasreen Hassanali
@MissAlnoor
Robber: put the money in the bag!! Victim: paper or plastic???? Lol
3:38 PM - 11 Mar 2011
Twitter
K.
@Kananugget
“Put it in the bag, put in the fucking bag. PUT THE MONEY IN THE FUCKING BAG.” “Paper or plastic?” hahahahhahah
8:22 AM - 7 Aug 2011
Twitter
mentallyspasmodic
@LoCut232
This dude store gettin rob she tell him to put the money n the bag he ask paper or plastic
12:06 PM - 20 Nov 2011
Twitter
Alex
@skippy779
Robber:put the money in a bag! Now!
Store clerk:.....
Robber: put it in a fucking bag!
Store clerk: paper or plastic?
8:54 PM - 2 Aug 2012
Twitter
kasiah laMe
@kasiahlx
robber: PUT THE MONEY IN THE FCKIN BAG!!1!
cashier: paper or plastic?
6:17 PM - 21 Nov 2016
Twitter
That Senpai~
@YoSkylerSeymour
Replying to @AlexSkinner
*alt*
ROBBER: put the money in the bag
CASHIER: it’s 10 cents, paper or plastic?
1:55 PM - 10 Oct 2017
Reddit—Jokes
A cashier asked me if I wanted paper or plastic.
submitted November 18, 2017 by PenguinOntheRoad
I told her: “just put the money in a fucking bag!”
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