Rescued: 7 Carts, Utah, United States

The weather has changed since my last cart wrangling excursion.

See those white orbs in this first picture? Those are snowflakes caught in the flash of my camera! It was a light snow, though. Nothing really got in my way.

It was slim pickin's around the apartment complex for carts this morning--just four. I can't really complain about that. It's possible that means fewer people are bringing their carts home with them after they go shopping. Somehow I doubt that, but it is possible. I started by cleaning the leaves out of the grocery store cart and the dollar store cart before returning them. I also took along a bag of paper waste to drop in the paper recycling bin near the grocery store.

I picked up this one on my way back from dropping off the first two. It belongs to the pet store, which is at the far back corner of this shopping center, but someone had abandoned it all the way out here, by the stop light.

I had to wait until the traffic had cleared before taking this picture. I get strange looks when I cross at the intersection with a line of shopping carts in front of me, but I get suspicious looks when I'm photographing the carts.

This picture is a lesson in perspective for all you artists out there. This cart belongs to FYE, which is the tiny building across the street and halfway across the parking lot. The cart isn't really more than ten times the size of its store. It's large because some inconsiderate shopper left it in the foreground.

Streetcorners, next to the electrical switch box--that's where carts belong! Not in the stores, not in the cart corrals, not even in the parking lots. Those rugged wheels were undoubtedly made for bounding over curbs and cruising up grassy hills!

This poor cart was left to watch the traffic going by for nearly two weeks before I was able to get to it.

This last picture is the fourth cart from those I found in the usual place this morning. It was my last rescue, but it appears that I was too late. It had been injured somehow. Still, I took it back to its store where perhaps the professional cart wranglers can put a cast on its broken parts or give it a prosthesis or something. And, as if to add insult to injury, the promotional text printed on the inside of the cart has a grammatical error (aside from the obvious lack of punctuation). Can you find it?