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Y<\/span>ou know, I try to be a good citizen. I mean we’re living in a society where people should treat others with respect or at least treat others as they would like to be treated, right? One of the very small things I try to do comes from experiences I had at one of my first jobs.<\/p>\n

In the second job of my life, I was working as a maintenance worker for a grocery store. I really liked the job and what’s more, I LOVED my paycheck for which I earned $3.54 an hour! That was twenty-two cents ABOVE minimum wage back then! (Oh god, I just morphed into my father!)<\/p>\n

Anyway, one of my tasks in this job was to round up shopping carts from the parking lot. It really wasn’t that bad except for the unbearable midwest humidity in 90+ August summer days. But, we entertained ourselves by seeing how many carts we could push in one giant line. I still feel sorry for that one customer whose car we T-boned as she was pulling out of the isle. But anyway, back to my good citizen speech.<\/p>\n

Obviously, even today some 20 years later I ALWAYS at least march my cart to the nearest cart corral when I’m done grocery shopping. I mean it’s the least I can do for those poor minimum wage ($8.00 an hour) teenagers with summer jobs during today’s global warming affected summers (2009 one of the coolest summer’s on record).<\/p>\n

However, I can never seem to be anywhere near a cart corral. <\/p>\n

Maybe I’m wrong, but perhaps, just perhaps the reason that I can never find a cart corral in the parking lot of the grocery store is due to the fact that THEY ARE ALL RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER!<\/p>\n

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The picture doesn’t do it justice, but there are 4 corrals almost TOUCHING EACH OTHER! <\/p>\n

Come on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…They are all right next to each other! You know, I try to be a good citizen. I mean we’re living in a society where people should treat others with respect or at least treat others as they would like …<\/p>\n

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