Obnoxious or Ingenious? You Decide.
April 10th, 2007Today I ended up idling at a red light behind a shiny black Escalade pickup thing like this one. Imagine my surprise to look up and see that in the back was a grocery cart … imagine my compounded surprise to realize the cart was FULL OF GROCERIES! In their bags! As in, these people went to Ralph’s, shopped, bought groceries, rolled their purchased groceries out to the parking lot, and then lifted the full cart into the back of their car to take it home.
April 11th, 2007 at 3:51 am
I think that’s theft – of the grocery cart kind. I read an article somewhere that was talking about how much grocery stores have to pay for those carts and how, when people just walk (or drive?) off with them, it costs the grocery store like a hundred dollars apiece or something to replace them. Nobody begrudges a homeless person their “closet on wheels”, but there are a lot of others who just decide to take the cart on home instead of carry their groceries and then they just never take it back. Strange that somebody that could afford an Escalade would do that, though. Hey, maybe they “borrowed” the Escalade, too!
April 11th, 2007 at 8:34 am
It doesn’t suprise me at all. Someone that is obnoxious enough to drive such an unnecessary vehicle can surely possess a sense of entitlement so high that they would think that this is acceptable. But I’m clearly upset about the mere existence of these vehicles. Thus, my opinion may be biased.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Okay, is it weird that while at the same time I was reading this blog, I was also listening to Don Cab’s “Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats Per Minute”?
April 11th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
As my mother would say, “tacky!”