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Look at them out there… Scattered about. Some on their own, some grouped together, one up against a tree, one up against a car. HEY - THAT’S MY CAR!

This is getting out of hand now. Debuting the small shopping carts at our boutique grocery store and deli has thus far been a disaster. Whatever happened to old fashioned respect and courtesy? Whatever happened to the sense of community? It use to be “Hi Bob!” and “Hello, Mrs. Stewart!”

Now it’s just a crowd. A crowd of folks rushing in, grabbing their stuff, making a mess, and rushing out. They cannot be bothered to pick up that can of beans they dropped. They cannot be bothered to exchange pleasantries with their butcher, their clerk, their bag man - they can hardly be bothered to look up from their phones. They sure as heck can’t be bothered to return the shopping carts to the front of the store...

This town has grown so rapidly. You’d think that more people would lead to more interpersonal communication. The effect has been the opposite. Individuals closed off from the present place and time. This isn’t sustainable. This isn’t a healthy society. What’s the use of all of this technology? It ought to slow things down and make life easier right? Instead, it has everyone in a frantic hurry. This stream of consciousness could go on and on…

“I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do…” as the fella says. Heck, if only I could change this shopping cart conundrum in our parking lot!

Wait a minute…

What about that company Michael was talking about…

VersaTube!

Oh yes, they sell easy to assemble Cart Corrals! We could put a couple of those together in no time! We could place them in those far corners of the lot. Those folks that won’t push them back to the front of the store will park them under the cart corrals. Then, instead of gathering them from all over the lot, and all over my car, we’ll just leave them in the cart corrals for the next customer’s convenience.

If only the whole interpersonal communication thing was this easy to fix…