Speak Spanish? Just in case you do not know what the title line was.
My first wife and I had ventured out on Sunday morning to indulge in a morning meal. The food and service was good. During our meal my present wife had noted that we would need to go to a certain grocery store on our way home. I accept orders from the Ford Homestead CEO!
Without providing a name of the store, I will say, if you want to use one of their carts you need to put a quarter in a slot to disconnect the cart from the others. This is done in an effort to have the carts returned to the cart storage area, by the customer, which saves the store money by not having to pay someone to go collect the carts from around the parking lot. One does get their quarter, back when the reconnect the cart to the others.
We arrived at the grocery store and my spouse of 47.5 years allowed me to stay in the Ford’s Chevy listening to Christmas music while she went inside and shopped. I observed several individuals get a cart from the storage area. Later as they left the store they all returned their carts and retrieved their quarter.
I find it interesting that people will push the cart out to their car and then push the cart all the way back to the storage area for a quarter. A quarter in today’s world is worth about as much as a penny was, when I was a kid. As a children, (yes I know I wrote children, it got your attention didn’t it) I could buy a piece of Double Bubble gum for a penny. I wonder if one can get a piece of Double Bubble for a quarter now days, if so where?
There was this one couple, male and female, who walked from the store pushing the cart to their vehicle. The items were unloaded from the cart and into the vehicle. The male pushed the cart back to the storage area. He had trouble reconnecting his cart to the others, and it appeared he had hurt his hand as he was shaking it as he marched back to the vehicle.
The female subject seeing the male subject fail to retrieve the quarter, but not worrying about the hand injury, she exited the vehicle and started toward the cart storage area. There seemed to be no doubt that she could reconnect the chain and retrieve the quarter. She was about three quarters of the way to the area when she abruptly stopped. Her hand gestures and body language said, “Why am I doing this for a quarter”? She stopped, turned, and headed back to her vehicle, body language saying, “I don’t care about that darn quarter!”
Then my spouse exited the store pushing the cart to our vehicle. Once the items had been loaded into the back seat she returned the cart to the storage area.
There was a heavy set man, possibly in his 60s that was attempting to speak to my wife. I noticed that she kind of gave him a look, and walked past him. I continued to observe. The fellow again spoke to my wife and this time she seemed to respond. Arriving back at the Ford’s Chevy, my first wife noted that the man had spoken to her in Spanish, when she didn’t respond, he asked if she spoke Spanish, he then spoke to her in English. He stated he liked our truck and wanted to know how much the Ford’s Chevy cost.
Two bits aint that much,
Leave the carts on the parking lot!
Don Ford
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