Intermittent pursuit
October 26th, 2008 at 10:05pm |
In keeping with my intermittent fascination for shopping carts, I bring you this:
Originally seen on Neatorama.
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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 [...]
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Scurry
October 15th, 2005 at 10:43pm |
Like a rodent, the shopping cart is propelled quickly across a crosswalk. Its driver, a scruffy man, runs in a shuffle, ignoring the blinking red hand.
He makes it safely to the other side, before traffic picks up. Then stops, near the grimy environs of an adult entertainment store, to pick up a piece of debris [...]
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New one
August 17th, 2005 at 12:41am |
Guy pushes his travelling cart with groceries and a dog. On the Lexus SUV side of town where you almost never see shopping carts travel outside the store parking lot.
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Natural habitat
August 13th, 2005 at 12:12pm |
In their natural habitat, in daylight. Mingling in colors of different stores, outside the store. These carts want to leave, but can’t. So they wait for the right opportunity to escape, and in the meantime, pretend that they’re just waiting to be returned to the store.
Dueling for space.
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Two carts in transit
July 29th, 2005 at 10:12am |
Spied two carts in transit, on their journeys into the world. One man pushes his two bags of groceries to the bus stop. The other cart is being used to carry the belongings of a woman .
One cart will be abandoned at the bus stop to its fate, and the other will travel longer, or [...]
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Investigation
July 3rd, 2005 at 2:59pm |
Spurred on by a conversation, went to check whether or not the shopping carts at a certain wholesale grocery store actually lock if you take them over a painted yellow line.
They don’t. At least, not on this night.
We scan the parking lot. There are a handful of people, too many really, hanging out this late. [...]
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