If the FDA regulated shopping carts:

They'd have to be gamma irradiated before being returned to the line for the
next user.

If the DOT regulated shopping carts:

They'd be equipped with backup beepers and turn signals.

If the DOD contracted a shopping cart:

It would weigh 195 pounds, be rated to carry TWO toddlers (with full field
diaper pack), and have GPS callback to your cell phone if you lost it.

If GMC made a shopping cart:

It would have multi-surface capability (linoleum, wood, carpet) and be
convertible to a bicycle.

If I made shopping carts:

They'd each be individually bar coded, and when you went through the register,
you could check out the cart along with the food, roll it into your mini van,
unload it in the kitchen, and return it to the store empty and undamaged, along
with your recyclables, for full credit within the first two hours, and a 15
cent deposit on each clean, uncrushed, aluminum beverage can.



Yours,

Doug Goncz, Replikon Research, Seven Corners, VA
Unpublished work Copyright 2003 Doug Goncz
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