Dear Management:

I understand that you instruct your employees to round up the carts often to keep them from clogging the parking lot and from being damaged by jerks who leave them floating around to be hit by cars.  Completely reasonable.  But as a mom of 2 very young children, I have a request.  Please, please, please, please leave a couple of your double carts in the cart corrals.  When I have 2 hot, cranky, hungry kids and I am 1 hot, cranky, hungry momma, I need instant access to a cart.  I don’t want to carry my baby while trying to hold tightly to my toddler’s hand and juggle my reusable grocery bags and my purse and my keys all the way up to the store and then go searching for a double cart.  My dream parking space would be under a tree next to a cart corral containing a double cart.  I don’t care if it is in the last row of the parking lot if it is shaded and has a double cart waiting for me.

While you are at it, could you plant a few shade trees?  Thanks.

Signed,

A momma with only 2 hands

Home Depot, probably not by desigh, had a double cart waiting for us (but sadly no shade tree) today.  Target did not.  I actually played a game of chicken with a mini van to park next to the 1 cart return that had a double cart in it…I lost.  Then once inside the store, I couldn’t find a double cart with functioning straps.  I never thought about these things before children but now they really effect how I view my shopping experience.

One of the things we dislike about renting is that we can’t paint or plant anything.  We finally cleaned out and gave up our storage unit (we should own the 10×10 piece of land after the rent we’ve paid over the past 2 years) and I got my big pots back.  So I bought a hanging basket of petunias (folks love their pentunias down here) and one of impatients on sale for $3.33 each and made our front walk a little prettier.  Assuming I don’t kill them…but hey those herbs are all still alive!