Free wireless internet included.
Posted on 09/21/2006 11:13:47 AM PDT by Grig
This might be great for the homeless as a shelter (hope it is easily hosed down), but as a shopping cart is blows bigtime. I'm supposed to expect my 5'2" wife to get something out of the bottom of that? Only with the help of a ladder and a safety harness. I can really see her folding the sides down at the check out counter to get that last can of Bush's Boston Baked Beans off the bottom. She's pregnant and has a hard enough time with a regular cart right now.
Where do I put the kids? How am I gonna put 100 of them together for easy storage and parking lot collection?
Unless it is "purpose built" for the homeless, nobody will buy it. Only grocery stores that are trying to promote their image to the touchy-feely San Franciscans and Vancouverites will buy it. The others (especially Wal Mart and discount chains) will stay away in droves.
If the stores don't want it, then this is just more crap spent on a problem that really can't be solved by giving them things to make their life better. If you can figure out how to get them to try some personal hygiene, you will do the world a favor. Now about getting them to use toilets...
Free wireless internet included.
If you have 100 kids, storing them is the least of your worries.
[P.S. The sides do fold down. The cart is a dumb idea, intelligently executed. :P ]
Get a job? The church where my wife works was approached by a couple claiming they needed money to buy car parts to fix their car so they could take a job in another county. The preacher commenced to get the exact items "supposedly" needed to fix the car from a relative of the couple who was their "mechanic". After getting the list, the preacher went to the auto parts store, bought the parts after the "mechanic" told the parts house owner what he needed, but left the parts there for the couple to pick up. The next day, the couple went to the parts store to claim and pick up the parts, but then stated they didn't need them and wanted the cash for the parts. The parts store owner called the "mechanic", then called the preacher and the police. The couple fled without getting anything, but it took two days and a lot of effort invested to devise a con such as their's that eventually failed. All that time they invested to steal something they could have spent picking peanuts at $6.25/hr for three hours each day for the two of them and made as much as the $75 they'd have gotten from those parts.
Well, my ambiguous syntax aside, modern shopping carts fold so that they can be joined together. That is for storage and so the stock boys (is that PC?) can gather up a bunch at once in the parking lot.
Your conclusion is correct, however.
PS. I would have put things away long before double digits, much less the full 100. The two I have and the third on the way are plenty.
Have spent some time on the site now. Some very clever designs. Take a look, they may have something for storm survivors that happen to become homeless.
Understood re modern shopping carts; I think these are intended to be given directly to the homeless.
Re procreation: Wise idea. Just think of the wait for the bathroom!
I asked "When's payday?"
He said "I don't know, you're the one who is working!" ...
Duh - That's what I get for leaving my computer for a half hour - forgetting I already posted this joke once!
Looks like an Industrial Designer has a lot of time on their hands.
But it is a good one, so we don't mind.
While not disagreeing with your tagline, isn't "illicit sin" redundant? Kind of like "dead corpse" or "stupid DUmmy?" [Capitalization intentional.]
Makes sense to me.
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