h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's the same for me. And time will makes things worse: with global warming, the oceans will rise and become wqider.

I'd volunteer Tom to drive his truck to help, but...

Conversely, if global warming triggers a severe ice age, the oceans will freeze, and Tom could drive us all across the ice to England, which will be a giant ice cube.

Paul, that sounds like a plan to me. Count me in. Baggers, help is on the way if you can just delay the move a bit.

Unfortunately I'm signing today with moving-in date the 4th. I've even put more stuff into boxes. Then I ran out of boxes.

Aww. Plastic bags for soft things, like clothes.

Failing that, it's another trip to Morrisons.

I've still got some bags to dig out for that stuff. Since it's only a few minutes walk to the new place I reckon I can bring boxes back and use them again. That way I'm forced to unpack things too.

Ah-ha! Mr Bagpuss, you are made of cunning.

There'll possibly be a trip to Morrisons to borrow a shopping trolley. Or is that a really chavvy thing to do?

As long as you take it back. Especially when you see the looks on the security guards faces as they watch you actually wheel it all the way there, put it away and take your quid back.

Also I must check they haven't got one of those "disable the trolley when it leaves the car park" systems. As my dad found out you can't undisable it by taking it back in.

Ah. Yes, that could be a problem.

How do you disable a shopping cart? And why would you want to? Is trolley theft a serious problem, then?

Yes; they tend to end up abandoned, often in waterways. People buy too much, take the trolley home, then dump it somewhere.

I'm not certain of the mechanism, but a cable is buried around the edge of the parking lot and a sensor is placed on the cart. Kind of like fenceless fences for s. If you cross the cable, the wheels lock up. Worse than they may already have been

See, this is the problem with living in hillbilly land. We miss out on all these fancy modern inventions. I was imagining someone stationed at the exit with a sledge hammer.

This is slightly off-topic, but there used to be a TV show called "Sledge Hammer" that I was very fond of. It starred David Rasche.

Hummmm. I don't remember that one, Paul. A private detective?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090525/

That sounds like my kind of program. I'm sorry I missed it.