Shopping Cart Key

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My mom left behind lots of stuff. Odds and sods. One of those odds was a small box full of key blanks. Why did she have key blanks? Get me a ouija board and I’ll find out.

(camera pans to me standing in a grocery store parking lot)

Do you ever find yourself at the local grocery store without a coin to take out a shopping cart? That’s me more often than I’d like to admit.

(star wipe to me standing in my living room)

These two seemingly unrelated things come together here in this knick knack.

The bow¹ of the key has the exact same diameter and thickness of a good old Canadian one dollar coin, the same coin typically used in shopping cart locks. So I cut the bit² (or blade³) of the key off, smoothed the rough edge, and now I’m never without access to a cart when I hit up No Frills⁴ for all my budget grocery needs.

¹ I actually looked up what that part of the key is called
² While I was there, I looked this up too
³ Damn right, I looked this up as well
⁴ Not a sponsored post, just know that this works in their shopping carts