Flying Grocery Carts

I was carrying stuff out to my car behind where I work this morning and saw about a half dozen teens gathered watching another shove a grocery cart down the bank and into the ravine from the parking lot. I decided that wasn't right and straightened myself up to be as tall as possible and walked over to them asking them what they were doing. I insisted they go down into the ravine and get the cart back up. To my surprise, one of them did. I peered over side and saw many carts down there. I told him to get another one while he was at it and another kid went down the bank to get the second cart. I suggested to no one particular in the group that they could be doing something more constructive with their time and a female voice agreed with me. I turned around to my left and saw the maintenance guy Zach loping along toward me with a smile, as always. As he got close enough to hear, I told him I was helping him out a bit. He grinned and pointed over my right shoulder. I turned and saw the security guard approaching the youths. He said he saw what was happening and figured I could use some help. I told him my work was done and turned to go back and load the rest of the stuff in my car and go to my next appointment. I glanced over there about 5 minutes later and saw a cart sitting all by itself at the top of the ravine with nobody around.


With so many needs in the world today, what prompts kids to goof off, cost a grocery store a couple hundred bucks by losing their cart?

I have told this story a couple of times today and mostly people are amazed that I stepped in and said something. We should each do something to make the world a better place. My only regret was that I didn't say the following to the kids..Why doesn't one of you say, "Hey, how bout we go down to Habitat for Humanity and help build a house or volunteer to help one of the kids in a homeless shelter do his homework or why don't we make a meal for the Fisher House so the family members of a wounded soldier, Marine or sailor can have something to eat."

What will you do today that will make a small difference in the world?