| This is a Public Service Announcement |
| This article is intended to warn you of the dangers of shopping carts. I've always believed that shopping carts were relatively harmless. Well, my opinion changed drastically on November 30, 2002, at about 2:45 AM in the Canton Meijer parking lot, where I was viciously attacked by one of the carts there. Everything was running smoothly. I went in, did a little Christmas shopping, bought a few cleaning supplies, and something to eat for supper. I paid for the purchases, pushed the cart outside, and placed the items in my vehicle. So far, so good. I was almost finished. All I had to do at this point, was place the shopping cart in the cart corral. This is where the attack took place. These cart corrals have a small lip that keeps the shopping carts from rolling out into the parking lot. In order to get the cart completely inside the corral, you have to bounce the cart over this little lip. I've never had any problems doing this in the past, but apparently, if you hit that thing just right, the entire cart will glance off of that lip, and hit you in the shin. I really have to commend my behavior after this attack took place. Even though it hurt like a son of a mother, I didn't cuss, scream or cry like I really wanted to. I just kind of limped back to my car, and drove home. My shin is still bruised, and there's a knot on it too. I'm sure I'll be fine eventually, but I don't know if I'll ever look at a shopping cart the same way again. I'm just glad that I didn't buy any cutlery that day; God only knows what I would've ended up doing to myself with that! |