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[โ€“] brem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wear a shirt that asks that question when I am guiding my cart led by bears into the coral reef corral! I dare you! Heathen! Miscreant! Obsturctor of order! Suggestiquator of squalor! You fool! The coral corral exists for a purpose! How will you navigate the parking lots, nay, STREETS..when they are filled with stray shopping carts! YOU SHANT, AND WE WILL ALL SUFFER FOR YOUR QUESTIONING OF THE ORDER DEMANDED!!!!!

[โ€“] brem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Streets stray with my kin

Nay

The disregard forced injustice of the corrupted Pushers

I was a gift given freely

Anyway

There was a monster in the parking lot that day