Member-only story
Writing Madness
Off my Trolley?
Maybe I’m mad and you can cart me off, but personal writing challenges open up new horizons…
OK, carts is what many people call them. In the UK ‘off my trolley’ means I’m nuts. Maybe I am, so here’s another off-the-wall story for you:
Recently I was sitting waiting for a bus outside a supermarket in Urangan, a small town near Hervey Bay, in Queensland, Australia. As is my wont when there is time to be filled, I cast around for subjects to write about.
And there they were, a whole line of them being shepherded by a man in hi-vis clothes with a battery powered tug.
Supermarket trolley, shopping cart — call them what you will — there is a whole big worldwide industry centred around these useful everyday rollers which come in a variety of designs to suit Joe Public, the elderly and even mums with twins. And beer, of course.
‘Materials handling’ is the generic term and I guess that could include anything from a toilet roll up to an oil tanker.
