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"My God — it's full of stars!"

OK, it doesn't really remind us of Bowman's exclamation in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), so maybe we're full of it, but I liked the the juxtaposition, particularly as I found the cart just exactly as you see it. It wasn't there this morning, so I would guess, by now, if anything, it's full of bottles. Binners who rely on the kindness of strangers for the tools of their trade, moan these days that shopping carts are getting hard to come by.

A shopping cart binner once tried to tell me, quite earnestly, that shopping carts were only rated to hold 40 pounds-or-so, as opposed to the 100 pounds for a standard bicycle trailer, such as mine. I laughed at him -- welded, steel wire shopping carts should be able to carry several hundred pounds, perhaps up to 1000 pounds! I would prefer we called them shopping trolleys, like in most Commonwealth countries, but I also think bike trailers should be bike carts, because I grew up understanding that a cart had two wheels -- current definitions say two or four. Click the images to enlarge them.