Shopping Cart Series: Beautiful Blue In A Sea Of Green


by on Jul 1st, 2009

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This stray shopping cart titled “A Long Way From Home” was caught by photographer Lisanne Anderson and posted on Flickr on May 22, 2009.

The beautiful blue plastic cart found cowering under the shade of a tree must have been mistreated by its family — the Family Dollar Store, that is. Imagine the life of this poor shopping cart, banged around, filled to the rim with cheap imports — only to be emptied and tossed aside without so much as a thank-you.

From another perspective, it looks like a blue cruise ship sailing on a sea of green, but then reality sets in and like the Backyard Woods Explorer said, “If this one sits here long enough, the weeds will grow through it.” Looks like Beautiful Blue would be happier living in the weeds than in an unhappy home.

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  • Anthony

    “Blue cruise ship sailing on a sea of green,” I like that. It’s a beautiful thought describing where I’d rather be at this very moment. A greater stretch of the imagination sees the cart as a flock of colorful birds flying upward out of the Amazon Jungle.

    Although it’s easy to assume that the abandoned cart was a victim of abuse, it’s not necessarily the case. Family Dollar merchandise is notoriously cheap plastic crapola that likely wouldn’t damage the young shopping cart. In fact, Junior was probably built more reliably than most of the worthless doo-dads it carried around. My guess is that the swivel-wheeled youngster was duped into some type of illegal activity such as transporting contraband. Once the poor thing served the malicious ends of the actual perpetrator, he or she was likely drugged and left in the street to weather the elements.

    By the way, the shopping cart series here is great. I love the poetic leanings of a good shopping cart story!

  • Anonymous

    The cart told us that the abuse came not so much from the merchandise that bothered him as much as it was the hapless shoppers and store workers, who didn’t supervise them!

  • http://www.gene-2009.com Gene B.

    So now we’re talking to shopping carts….

    And they call ME crazy for wanting to get into politics! :-P

    J/K Ray! Go back to your conversation!

  • Anonymous

    Well, it wasn’t so easy to get this shy one to talk. I had to roll him over all the to Ave Z for a chat over a cup of coffee & dessert at Cappuccino on the Bay. He said that after all those years of hanging around the “international” set, he was desperate for a slice of American apple pie.

  • Anthony

    “Blue cruise ship sailing on a sea of green,” I like that. It’s a beautiful thought describing where I’d rather be at this very moment. A greater stretch of the imagination sees the cart as a flock of colorful birds flying upward out of the Amazon Jungle.

    Although it’s easy to assume that the abandoned cart was a victim of abuse, it’s not necessarily the case. Family Dollar merchandise is notoriously cheap plastic crapola that likely wouldn’t damage the young shopping cart. In fact, Junior was probably built more reliably than most of the worthless doo-dads it carried around. My guess is that the swivel-wheeled youngster was duped into some type of illegal activity such as transporting contraband. Once the poor thing served the malicious ends of the actual perpetrator, he or she was likely drugged and left in the street to weather the elements.

    By the way, the shopping cart series here is great. I love the poetic leanings of a good shopping cart story!

  • Anonymous

    The cart told us that the abuse came not so much from the merchandise that bothered him as much as it was the hapless shoppers and store workers, who didn’t supervise them!

  • http://www.gene-2009.com/ Gene B.

    So now we’re talking to shopping carts….

    And they call ME crazy for wanting to get into politics! :-P

    J/K Ray! Go back to your conversation!

  • Anonymous

    Well, it wasn’t so easy to get this shy one to talk. I had to roll him over all the to Ave Z for a chat over a cup of coffee & dessert at Cappuccino on the Bay. He said that after all those years of hanging around the “international” set, he was desperate for a slice of American apple pie.