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Default Shopping cart thief

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Steve Wertz > wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:52:06 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > I had to laugh, as I was shopping just now, I came upon
> > a woman muttering about her cart. I hear 'this isn't my stuff,
> > this isn't my cart! I just put my cart right here! and someone
> > took it! Oh man, glad it wasn't me. We were just talking about
> > that.

>
> I left my cart at the end of an isle once (like I usually do in
> crowded stores), and when I went back, all the stuff from my cart
> is sitting on an end-cap next to an empty hand-basket.
>
> I looked around and saw this lady and her daughter eye me just as
> she headed up an isle with a cart. I caught up to her, stopped
> her (my) cart, emptied out all her stuff into the middle of the
> isle as she stood there wild-eyed. I announced to about 5 other
> shoppers nearby: "Watch out for this lady or she'll steal your
> cart like she just did mine".
>
> At least I *think* I had the right culprit judging from her
> behavior and reaction. Otherwise I would have looked pretty
> silly. Who knows - maybe she wasn't one who stole my cart?
> <shrug> We'll never know.
>
> -sw


Damn. You seriously had a set of brass ones. ;-)
Where did you buy them just to keep it on topice?
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