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.

You seem to be confusing convenience -- for the store AND the consumer --
with petty theft and vandalism.

Or are you saying that the shopping carts were loaded into planes, and
stolen?

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.

I understand your point, Tom, and frown on the practice everywhere EXCEPT
Oshkosh, where there is simply no alternative (since EAA closed the on-site
food store) to shopping at Pick N Save. As long as we pilots -- generally
an honorable group -- continue to work together to keep the cart
merry-go-round going (I.E.: Taking the carts BACK to the store as frequently
as we take them to the North 40), everything will be in balance, and no one
is harmed.

However, the moment it becomes a problem of too many carts stacked up in the
North 40, with no one willing to push them back, well, then the system will
have failed, and we all lose.

Including Pick N Save, by the way. If we can't carry what I buy on foot, we
will simply eat and drink more on the grounds.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"