Do You Feel The Need To Return Your Shopping Cart To Its Proper Place?

Beverly Bowman
3 min readJun 6, 2024
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Not looking to your interests but each of you to the interests of others. Phillippians 2:4

I can’t remember a time since I was old enough to understand when we go to the grocery store or any place that has shopping carts we should return them to their proper place. Even though throughout my life I have seen shopping carts in places where they don’t belong. I have seen them placed in front of people’s cars, in the street, in people’s yards, kids riding in them, or just sitting waiting to get hit by a car backing out of a grocery store parking lot.

If a shopping cart could talk it would ask the shoppers to please put me back where I belong so I won’t get hit or damaged thank you!

Imagine if everyone decided not to place the shopping cart back in its proper place in a grocery store parking lot. Do you have any idea the chaos it would cause? You just spent $200 buying groceries and have placed all those bags in your car, and just left your cart right there. “Not noticing all the other shopping carts that have not been returned, because you are trying to get home to put the ice cream in the fridge before it melts.”

You get in your car to back out and BAMM! you hit a shopping cart, then you realize what looks to be at least 100 shopping carts in the…

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Beverly Bowman
Beverly Bowman

Written by Beverly Bowman

I write to inspire others as well as myself. If I can make some money along the way, I see that as another form of inspiration.https://beeready315.medium.com/su