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Topic: Crime and Punishment (not about the book) (07/21/11)
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TITLE: Grocery Cart Shenanigans | Previous Challenge Entry
By Sharon Henderson
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You know what I dislike more than cooking?
Grocery shopping!
Can I ask you a question? Of course I can. Why isn't reckless operation of a grocery cart a crime? It really should be a crime!
This happens to me every stinking time I let down my guard and venture into the local grocery store. I get my cart. I carefully place my purse in the child seat and securely wrap the straps around the handle for security reasons. You know that's a must. You do! Then I'm off to purchase each item on my mental list.
Yes, my list is merely mental. One of the dangers created by other cart drivers is “listing while driving a cart”. You know what that looks like. With pen in one hand and list in the other, they attempt to mark off selected items while maneuvering the cart with their hips and knees. Since their eyes are not on the aisle (the grocery store version of a road), they zig and zag along and smack right into another more careful shopper. Usually ME! I say this should carry a fine of having to do the grocery shopping for the victim for one month. That will teach them to keep their eyes on the aisle and to pull over when they need to use their list.
The next grocery cart crime happens when a shopper has no idea where to find the next item on their list. They get to the row where they 'think' the item should be located. They inch their way down the aisle and then they STOP. Yep, they just stop right smack dab in the middle of the aisle. Then they stare and stare. And you are stuck. Plum stuck. No room to go behind them and no room to go in front of them not to mention the look you'd get from them for daring to step in front of them while they are hunting their elusive item. Failure to unblock the aisle should carry the fine of being banned from the store for one month. (Since I, again, do not like grocery shopping I might just voluntarily commit this 'crime' so be on the lookout.)
The final grocery cart crime doesn't happen in the store. It happens in the parking lot. Failure to return the cart to it's designated spot. Why do people think it's so hard to take the cart to the cart corral or back into the store? Why is it so popular to leave the grocery cart parked BETWEEN two usually very nice cars? How many dings are unnecessarily pounded into sweet innocent cars because of a lazy grocery shopper? Loss of parking lot privileges would be the suitable punishment for this crime. Ding another car and they can't return to the store in a car for one month. If they have to walk home with their bags, they most likely won't be so careless with those carts.
Are you with me? Will you sign my petition to get these laws in place? You go ahead and get it started. I'm going out to dinner...remember I don't like to cook.
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You were able to fill your lines with the exact emotional tone we have all had in the shopping adventure.