Hustled At SuperStore

The other day I was hustled at SuperStore. What's SuperStore, you ask? It's kinda like the Canadian version of Costco but they tend concentrate more on food stuffs. I hate going to SuperStore because it's always packed, especially on weekends. The most fucked up thing about SuperStore is that you have to pay for your plastic bags and have to bag everything yourself. But the prices are good.

Anyway, getting back to the hustle. So I took my son, got him out of the car seat, and began looking for a cart. As I'm approaching the carts, a man who already has a cart comes up to me and asks if I'd like to have his. I said sure since Noél was eager to get into the cart. The carts have these anti-theft devices on them where you have to put in a coin into a slot on the cart in order to get the cart. So I asked the guy how much it was and he said $2. It was the first time I had been to SuperStore and didn't know how much the carts took. At other stores such as Safeway, they only required a quarter.

Anyway, it seemed odd to be me that it would be so much but I gave him the $2 Canadian coin anyway. So Noél and I did our business at the store. When I went to return the cart tol get my $2 back, I noticed it was only a buck. I was hustled for a dollar.

What kind of sorry ass society do we live in where someone hustles another person for a buck using a shopping cart. I mean, I've been duped before by crooks, but a middle-aged well-off man? Is that what is has come down to? Grr...