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| The grandma cart |
Any who, we go grocery shopping once a week and completely depend on the cart to get our groceries the 10 blocks home. Our cart is just over a year old and since we shop for 4 1/2 people there are quite a few groceries and we fill it up each week.
Last night we went on our weekly grocery run and ending up buying some pretty heavy items. A 5 lbs bag of potatoes, around 6 lbs of apples (it is fall after all), a gallon of milk...the list goes on. Ted and I were in change of the groceries while Mark and Juliana were tasked with getting dinner at Atomic Wings. Ted and I were about 2 1/2 blocks from the apartment when the worst happened...one of the front wheels fell off. Ted and I stopped and he stuck the wheel back on and we pressed on. I was pretty concerned about the ice cream melting more than it already had. We made it another few yards when then unthinkable happened. The front wheel base and axle completely died. We tilted the cart back, trying not to crush the eggs and Ted jimmy rigged it so that we were able to go another couple of yards before it broke again. This time one of the back wheels came completely off. Ted again jimmy rigged it together and he was able to push it using just 3 of the 4 wheels. Mark and Juliana caught up with us at this point and Juliana and I took few bags out in an attempt to lighten the load but after another block the other back wheel came off. We were a block and an half away from our apartment with melting ice cream and figured the cart was beyond saving. We doled out the remaining bags in the cart and left it at the corner by a trashcan.
So we parted ways with our grandma cart at the street corner. Luckily they aren't expensive and maybe next time we'll go easy on it.
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