Jay Honeck wrote:
FWIW, there was a cop threatening to padlock the gate by Friar Tuck's due
to the dumbasses who were 'borrowing' shopping carts from the grocery and
dumping them by the gate (and their brethren who then used them for trash
receptacles).


Whoa, there, pardner. The shopping cart merry go 'round is an old tradition
in the North 40, and it works very well, indeed.

Here's how it works:

1. North 40 camper hikes to Pick N Save, and loads up on beer, food, and
ice. There is no way for said camper to haul that much stuff back to his
campsite -- so he "borrows" a shopping cart for the trip back to the gate.

2. At the gate entrance, said camper leaves the cart for the next guy, who
is on his way to buy more ice and beer. He, in turn, takes the cart back
to Pick N Save, and fills it with ice, beer, and food.

3. Repeat as necessary.

This has worked for years, and pre-dates Pick N Save by a wide margin.
(Piggly Wiggly was the store of choice for many years.)

Tell the police officer to go bust another meth dealer. The Midwest is
full of them.

(Anyone using the carts for trash receptacles should be shot, of course.)

I guess I missed that one. I was within spitting distance of the gate
and I never saw one cart being pushed back to Pick N Save. How do you
feel about the 'tradition' of stealing hotel towels and leaving your
room looking like a pig pen? I believe that tradition pre dates the air
show but I personally don't approve of it or practice it.

Now you're making me laugh. Maybe I should have told the cop that our
taxes pay his salary and maybe quoted something from the constitution.
That usually leaves them quaking in their boots! "Whoa Ralph, we're in
over our heads with this guy. He's talkin' constitution now. Let's go
bust a meth dealer." g

Seriously, I'm not here to start fights with the 'regulars', and you
seem like a decent type of guy. I was reporting what I saw at the gate
and I did go on to to inject my personal opinion with the 'dumbass'
remark. I doubt that Pick N Save feels that the 1 percent or so they net
entitles everyone to take their carts on an off road cross country trek,
but it's not my call. That gate was about to get locked and it would
have caused inconvenience to thousands of people and cost the local
merchants a lot of money.

Tom