shopping cart

Go to komonews.com and watch the video about trash dumped in the Green River in Washington. There are shopping carts, bicycles, CDs, all kinds of horrible things that shouldn’t be in our drinking water sources. Obviously no one knows who did it, and no one seems to want to clean it up.

I got an email response from Amazon customer service:

Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.com.

I’m sorry for the trouble you had with your shopping cart.

I’ve reported the problem, and our technical team is working on taking care of it right now.

So I was in the Nolensville Road Kroger this weekend, pretending that I was an out-of-towner, so I could see if Southern manners are really out the window.  My report?  It’s true, there are no more cordialities.

From the Tennessean
Downtown accident victim is identified

A woman killed while pushing a shopping cart across North First Street on Saturday night has been identified as Linda Harris.

Harris, 38, who was homeless, was struck by a Dodge pickup truck about 8 p.m. on a dimly lit part of the road near Jefferson Street. She was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was pronounced

I was notified of this tragedy by Metro police Saturday night; I'm trying now to find Linda's boyfriend to see if there's anything I might be able to do to assist him. Unfortunately, I've been so busy with so many others I haven't been able to really search thoroughly for him.

We’ve all been there… grabbing something and tossing it into the shopping cart on impulse, the unfortunate occurrence of being persuaded into a purchase that you know you will never use in your lifetime, giving into the temptation of accepting a credit card offer, only to find out that the interest rate is ridiculous, and if you are even a day late, there is a preposterous late fee that automatically will send your account into the red. Yes, I’m talking about DEBT.