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Dec 12, 2020 · Another Cart Facebook / Patrick Gibson Different from what most carts in Walmart looked like, a cart close to him was stuffed high with products. A bit envious, he glanced at the groceries, spotting fresh steaks, butter, shrimp, cheese, lobster and various items that he considered to be luxury products.
- Incensed
- Doing Everything He Could
- Making Do
- A Family to Feed
- Grocery Shopping
- Getting Antsy
- Wistful
- Wait A Minute…
- Not Just Any Card
- Incredulous
It seemed like an ordinary shopping trip, but he had no idea that he was about to leave supermarket in such a rage. But it wasn’t the long lines at the checkout counter or the human crush in the produce aisle that set him off. It wasn’t the screaming children or the zombified mothers pushing their carts in front of him in a daze. It was another fam...
Patrick Gibson was a hard-working man who did everything he could to support his small family. When he enlisted in the U.S. Army, he thought that perhaps life would get easier. It certainly wasn’t easy for him to leave his family for months at a time to serve his country, but if there was one thing his parents taught him, it was that nothing was ev...
Patrick considered himself lucky when he met the love of his life, Whitney, and the happy couple tied the knot shortly afterwards. Before he knew it, he was a father of two–a boy and a girl. But the couple fell on hard times, and with only one breadwinner in the family, they had to make do with what they could afford.
Patrick often went hungry so that his family could eat, skipping breakfast so that his $70 would stretch as far as it possibly could. $70 doesn’t go very far when you have 4 mouths to feed, and after other household expenses like diapers, car payments, gas, and toiletries, the Gibsons were hardly making ends meet. But that was okay, Patrick thought...
When Patrick had a little left over from his paycheck one month, he decided to visit the local Walmart to do some grocery shopping. He walked through the aisles, carefully selecting the specials and best buys, doing calculations in is head all the while. Maybe he could buy a little treat for the family today, he thought as he inspected the gorgeous...
Walmart was full that day, so he didn’t want to be there for longer than he had to be. Children wailed as their tired mothers pushed them listlessly, and rude people rode into the back of Patrick’s heels with their shopping carts. It was time to get out of here. He pushed his meager amount of groceries to the checkout line and waited to be served, ...
As the line of shuffling shoppers moved slowly forward, Patrick noticed wistfully that the two carts ahead of him were piled high. He spotted fresh steaks, butter, bacon, cheese, shrimp, lobster–every luxury item he could imagine was stacked to overflowing in the two carts. “Must be nice,” he mumbled to himself as they started to unload their goodi...
With their load of loot packed and ready to go, the number on the screen flashed a staggering total of $800, which wasn’t surprising. Patrick watched the man pull open his wallet, push aside a wad of $100 bills, and fish out his EBT card.
An EBT card, or electronic benefits card for those who don’t know, is an electronic food stamp system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a payment card. And this is what the man was using to pay for all of his luxury items. Patrick had seen enough and angrily pulled out his phone.
Patrick was in a rage, but he bit his tongue and snapped a picture. Maybe he was too quick to judge, he thought, holding back his fury. After all, he couldn’t know what the couple’s situation was. But what he saw next in the Walmart parking lot was about to be the final straw.
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Army dad Patrick Gibson had never expected to leave the supermarket in such a fury. It was another family's shopping cart that sent him into a rage.
Oct 31, 2022 · Getting Out Of There. Facebook - Patrick Gibson. He didn't want to be there any longer than necessary because Walmart was crowded that day. Children screamed as exhausted mothers pushed them idly while unpleasant adults rammed their shopping carts into Patrick's heels. He needed to leave immediately.
Dec 17, 2019 · One day on June 14, 2015, Gibson was so happy he had extra money left over that he decided to go shopping at Walmart. As he walked through the aisles, he kept an eye out for special deals and calculated everything that went into his shopping cart in his head.
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U.S. Army Soldier Patrick Gibson knows about paying his dues for something worthwhile. Not long ago, with the little money left from his paycheck, he stopped at his local Walmart store to buy some food items and diapers for his family.
