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{"id":43,"date":"2008-10-12T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-10-12T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:04:00","slug":"mmem-vol-4-issue-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol. 4 Issue 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div    style=\"float:right;width:150px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-left:10px;padding-bottom:10px;line-height:24px;  text-align: right;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Georgia;font-size:28px;color:#FF6600;\"><span style=\"color:gold;\">&#8230;do we really <\/span> need to do more <b>to make shopping<\/b> carts<span style=\"color:brown;\"> inoperable?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><!-- the drop cap --><br \/><span style=\"margin-right:6px;margin-top:5px;float:left;background:khaki;border:1px solid darkkhaki;line-height:60px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;font-size:80px;\">T<\/span><\/p>\n<p>his sign was recently discovered in a Walgreens parking lot.  I&#8217;m not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that shopping carts get stolen from Walgreens or the fact that they are so valuable that the company has to install an under ground electrical wiring system that renders the cart&#8217;s wheels inoperable once said cart goes past the official Walgreens perimeter. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_3nWXIPEyl8w\/SPIGOu4zb1I\/AAAAAAAAB0Y\/mqka7VLdXT0\/s400\/MMeM430.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256270565269008210\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I realize that in today&#8217;s society, we have to lock down every loose piece of metal known to man to keep scrappers from taking them to the salvage yard for money.  And why is that?  Why can&#8217;t a scrap yard worker look at a Walgreens shopping cart brought in by Cracky McMeth and think, &#8220;Hmm, this doesn&#8217;t seem right&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>How many shopping carts does your typical Walgreens even have, 6?  And do we really need to do MORE to make shopping carts inoperable?  I mean every cart that I ever get stuck with sounds like I&#8217;m pushing a led sled over a chalkboard with speed bumps with its bent and out-of- alignment wheels already.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, who shops at Walgreens with a shopping cart anyway?  Don&#8217;t answer that, because I already know.  It&#8217;s the person with 22 coupons in front of me with a cart full of scavenger-hunt-type merchandise which together comprise the most eclectic and complicated-to-checkout purchases in history.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, I stand there holding my gallon of milk (sounded dirty but wasn&#8217;t).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;do we really need to do more to make shopping carts inoperable? T his sign was recently discovered in a Walgreens parking lot. I&#8217;m not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that shopping carts get stolen from Walgreens or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=43\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol. 4 Issue 30<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-contraptions","category-signage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}