Trolley Thoughts

On my way home from my primary care physician's office, where I see my doctor more often than I'd like, yesterday, I stopped at the grocery store for some odds and ends. We have a car chock-full of recyclable grocery bags, so of course, after I'd placed some items in the cart, I realized I'd left them all there. Happens with a frequency that's dizzying and discouraging.  

I had a choice: buy a paper sack for a dime or buy yet another recyclable bag that will eventually end up in the tailgate of our car. The last time I checked, which should have been before I went into the store, it was a little tight under the tailgate, so a paper sack it was. 

My health has reached a point that I use the shopping cart as much as a walker as a place to put groceries I'd like to purchase. I am amused by the mundane. Hell, I am a poster child for it, so I find it interesting that grocery stores place their carts at the entrance, along with baskets (if you need just a few items).  

My life experience suggests placing some carts in the middle of the store would be helpful for folks like me who think we are only buying five or so items and then discover we have our hands full to overflowing and we're not done yet. Sadly, no grocer has chased after me to hear any of my other ideas for improving the shopping experience, which would start by placing all the items in the stores in the aisles and on the shelves in alphabetical order.  

In the canned goods and condiments aisle (see? they already do some of my suggestions), there was an abandoned empty cart in the middle of the aisle, near the salad dressings. The shopper had not gone off in search of an item; the cart was alone and unattended. 

Two aisles further along, baked goods section, there was an abandoned cart with a scattering of some items. I decided to assume the shopper had been raptured, which was quite popular on social media platforms earlier in the week, though when I looked up, there was no hole in the ceiling, so perhaps my theory was not completely thought out (unless The Lord moves in even more mysterious ways than previously advertised). 
-bill kenny