Did we need eggs?
Which cereal would my son complain about least?
Why had peanut butter become so expensive?
By the time I reached the checkout, I’d mostly forgotten her.
Forty minutes later, I came outside with several bags of groceries.
I saw the cart before I reached my parking space.
At first, I thought someone had simply left it beside my car.
Then I got closer.
The front corner of the cart was jammed against my driver’s side door. The metal had left a long scrape through the paint and a deep dent below the handle.
This was not a cart that had gently rolled into the car.
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