Long neglected
June 4th, 2006 at 10:36am |
Let’s Go Shopping, once a separate blog, has become a much-neglected part of my writing.
I had my camera with me on a shopping trip and thought I’d bag this for amusement:
It’s the law. What lawbreakers Calfornians, and in particular Fresnans, have turned out to be.
Carts meet in their attempts to escape the yuppies in this northeast Fresno parking lot. Yuppies have little need for stealing shopping carts as they have their SUVs to cart all the groceries away.
Posted in Cart sightings, Let's go shopping
Carts next to the Jag. Nice juxtaposition.
Brown shopping carts with warning labels on the seats. How exotic! Ours in the east only have cigarette advertisements on them.
Just kidding…but now that I think about it, red, gray, and green seem like the only colors I’ve ever seen on shopping carts. I don’t recall seeing brown recently.
Imagine going to court over stealing a shopping cart! How embarrassing…
Shopping carts here come in every color you can want. Blue isn’t uncommon. Orange. They tend more to plastic too, but the metal ones are still around.
As for going to court over a shopping cart: I bet the number of prosecutions for that is exactly zero. People steal them anyway, routinely. The people that steal them cannot afford to pay the fines. It’d be a pointless endeavor, a further waste of money.
Glad to see you coming back to this theme. Did a little stealing of my own in the last week. I was in Goodwill and noticed that half of their books were gone. Apparently, they indiscriminately threw out half their books and videos…
Well, Elliot and I went around back and their dumpster was overflowing. The first thing that I noticed was a wheel barrow. I had been wanting a wheel barrow (and dreading spending 40 bucks on one). I was polite this time though, and asked at the back door if I could take it. They said, “yes, if they didn’t see me and if I didn’t take anything in the dumpster.” OK.
I took the wheel barrow (I wrote “dumpster” first time though) and went back. I grabbed four videos, unopened copies of an old brit series, Dark Shadows. Just as I grabbed them, I recalled that that was a no-no. I took them anyway. Unfortunately, there were another 20 or so videos from that same series in the dumpster and when Dawn went back later, they had padlocked the dumpster.
One of the things I do not like about being a prof in a small town is that I now have to act like a repressed member of society. Thrift stores and dumpster diving are not exactly what most people think of when they think of an ENG prof. . . it looks like we are going to have to travel outside of town to get our thrills.
Big Lots has orange carts…Meijer has grey…I think K-Mart has some blue ones
Todd, when are you ever going to learn about dumpster diving? Though I’m suprised you didn’t just fish out all of the videos anyway. They weren’t watching, were they?
And imagine if you, as the prof in a conservative town, were caught like you were at MSU. That might be a pretty fun story.
And Food 4 Less (I hate the 4!), a 24-hour warehouse type store not to far away has yellow carts. Extra large carts because people tend to do alot of shopping there.