A family act
So a homeless guy rolls his shopping cart full of cans up to the recycling center. It’s staffed by this guy, Harry Stein, a legend in the business – he did four carts of mixed recyclables a day when he was younger, and now he’s got this steady gig manning the redemption center. Any rate, the first guy has this amazing shopping cart, wants to talk about it. “Check this out. First, the cart takes ten others from the rear. I yank it off of the stack, wrap my hands around the bar at the back, start pushing away. Then my baby son, he takes a big dump that overflows the free diapers they hand out at the aid office. There’s crap everywhere! But the seat is made of Microban – the cart is loving this. We fill it to the top with scrap, and bring it here, completely smothered with trash and feces. And then we do it again!”
Harry leans back, trying to get some distance from the smell. “Interesting. What do you call your cart?”
Abby:
Thanks for the much needed laugh.
29 September 2006, 10:28 amBDEaston:
And I thought it was out on DVD…
29 September 2006, 12:38 pmKen:
Wow. Here I was expecting something that was going to segway into a political rant about Frist’s online gambling rider.
29 September 2006, 1:55 pmCraig:
Shouldn’t it be “The Aristocart”?
4 October 2006, 8:05 amColin:
I actually misread it as “The Aristocart” for the first few minutes I was reading the site. Checked and rechecked, kept getting “The Aristocart.” It might have been more clever that way, but then what do they call the model currently called “The Villager” as a followup?
In the film The Aristocrats, several of the comedians interviewed mentioned that they kept wanting to say “The Aristocats” as the punchline of the joke. Rehrig’s marketing guys probably have the same problem with “Aristocart.”
4 October 2006, 11:32 amKate Creitz:
I’m so proud!! (he’s my son!!)
5 October 2006, 1:16 pm