The strangest thing happened to me at the supermarket the other day.

I lost my grocery cart.

I left my cart at the end of the ailse to go get a jar of peanut butter. When I went back it was gone.

I spent the next ten minutes wandering the ailses looking for my wayward cart. Finally I just gave up, got another cart and started over. I had been almost finished.

At first I figured another shopper probably got my cart mixed up with theirs. But it didn’t seem likely. For one thing it was about 9pm and there weren’t many people in the store. For another thing if another shopper had taken my cart by mistake she would have realized pretty quickly that she had the wrong food.

I got a clue on my second time around when I noticed there were three packages of beef sausage in the refrigerated section. I thought I had taken all the beef sausage my first time around (’twas on sale)

I think what must have happened is that a store employee thought I had abandoned my cart and left the store, so he put all the food back.

But why would he think that?