trolley return

hey there


everyone is, by now, i am confident, quite sick of terms such as "back to normal" or "the new normal" being expressed as defining our lives in the aftermath of the invisible war on the new plague. people saying such are becoming as grating and as sigh inducing as those who use the phrase "unprecedented" to describe all that is going on, look you see. so, i shall do all that i can to refrain from using them in any capacity beyond this opening paragraph. if, indeed, it is a paragraph, which i am pretty sure that it is.

a thing that all of us have, surely, missed is the sight of shopping trolleys (which might be trollies) left abandoned and discarded at various sites around the country. certainly, the high readership posts such as this one and this one and this one and also this one have attracted says i am not alone in either thinking this or being bored enough to give it consideration.

with a significant (elevated) number of people once again being out and about in the world, all doing their thing, there has been a most welcome return to seeing shopping trolleys (or trollies) being left all over the place. yes, there are indeed some images of such here for you, taken relatively recently, post lockdown, if we are indeed in the post phase or stage.

there you go, three shiny, sterilised and ready to use trolleys, all parked up by a rudimentary, somewhat conventional bus stop type of structure.

one cannot help but wonder as to how all three ended up where they were spotted. was it, i wonder, or indeed speculate, if it was so that one person simply dumped theirs there and others that followed assumed (or took it as a given) that it was a dedicated place for them to be left. or maybe it was so that three people arrived all at the same time with the trollies (trolleys), took their shopping with them on to the bus they were presumably there to catch and just left them there. maybe they wished to take the trolleys (trollies) on to the bus with them too, but the bus driver was having none of it.

i can take no credit for the picture above. my part has been merely to publish it here, so that all may see the welcome return of a shopping trolley or two (three) left abandoned out in the world. no, rather, it was Codename Magic who brought such splendid visual to us.

should it be so that the above does not "work" in a moving, motion, video type of way, well, i have added it as a more conventional video file below.

let me not repeat what i have said before on the value (and importance) of the rudimentary, conventional shopping trolley to our economy. all of them links above contain the details, if you are so interested. but, to recap, more people out and about taking trollies (trolleys) generously provided by the highly profitable supermarkets means that the scrapyard sector shall surely get a really good, thumping kickstart.

have i, personally (as in myself) seen any shopping trolleys (trollies) on my travels, now that i am once again free to roam the land? why, yes i have. but, for some reasons (and only one of those was that i was not actively looking for such), i quite nearly missed one.

the discrete (discreet?) placing of this one probably has everything to do with the area what i was in when i spotted this one. just a glance at the unobtrusive and unassuming locale tells you i was somewhere posh and sophisticated. so, yes, for those of you who guessed that this was a very Richmond way to display a recently obtained shopping trolley, that was where i was. of course, i speak of proper Richmond, as in the one in Yorkshire, and not the fake, crass and questionable one they have down in that London place.

now that trolleys (trollies) are back out and about, freely available for collection, how soon is it that we will experience the economic benefits? i am not sure. sadly, or alas, i am not on good strong relationship terms with anywhere near as many scrap metal merchants as i would either like to be, or had imagined that i would be by this stage of my life. so i have no idea if they are all "coronavirus precautions" upped yet, or if they are taking in trollies (trolleys) or how much they might be paying for them.

but, let us not be negative. as interesting as the relatively recent experiment with trading in cones instead of shopping trolleys (trollies) has been, i have every confidence that money shall soon flow freely in the economy due to the generosity of so many supermarkets making so many of these trolleys so widely available. except Tesco, who still want you to pay £1 for one of them. which is in fairness good value, but not quite so good a free.

just that video of Codename Magic above, in a slightly different format, in the hope that in one instance the animation or moving element of it all works. no, so far as i am aware Codename Magic is not an active "player" in the shopping trolley market. as a gentleman of some considerable wealth, i really do not believe he has any need for such a low yield economic activity. but, like many of us, maybe he does take the odd one or two for fun.

yes, if i see any further trolleys (trollies) or anyone sends me some pictures or videos (or both), i will most certainly put them up here for your entertainment. or anything else of even the most basic, banal or bland interest encountered. maybe i shall go see if the car wash facilities of the world are back up and running again.




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