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Friday, November 28, 2003
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Buy Nothing Day 2003
Upon arriving at the Dickson City WalMart parking lot, my car was nearly hit by a run-away shopping cart. I grabbed it and retured it to the cart "corral." Just as Lita pulled in, I saw a cart flying towards someone else's car. I made a dash and got there just in time. We looked around and had an idea....since there were carts everywhere...
"Why don't we put them back where they belong?" we thought
Some of them had a long way to go home....
It was a satisfying project. One of the "cart dudes," who told me that the four-plus people who worked an eight hour shift put away at least 1,500 carts, thanked me for helping out.
It's not just carts that people leave behind
We bought NOTHING on Buy Nothing Day.
What did you buy?
11/28/2003 03:57:11 PM
Upon arriving at the Dickson City WalMart parking lot, my car was nearly hit by a run-away shopping cart. I grabbed it and retured it to the cart "corral." Just as Lita pulled in, I saw a cart flying towards someone else's car. I made a dash and got there just in time. We looked around and had an idea....since there were carts everywhere...
"Why don't we put them back where they belong?" we thought
Some of them had a long way to go home....
It was a satisfying project. One of the "cart dudes," who told me that the four-plus people who worked an eight hour shift put away at least 1,500 carts, thanked me for helping out.
It's not just carts that people leave behind
We bought NOTHING on Buy Nothing Day.
What did you buy?
