I'll tell you what isn't sooper

I'm trying to be positive about today's strip. At least it's not a recycled idea. And, um...Shoot. I'm out of positive things to say.

Because, really. "Soopermarket"? Soopermarket? I'm cringing. A lot. That is just so wrong. It's not like he's trying to go for the phonetic spelling, as "sooper" and "super" are pronounced the same way. It's just wrong and bad. Ugh. And "calorie cart"? Do people actually use that term? Because they're stupid and wrong.

And no, that has never ever happened to me. If a cart sucks inside the store, it sucks outside the store, too. It usually sucks more outside, because it's rolling over asphalt, not pretty, shiny, slippery tiles. Maybe the problem is that the submitter is from San Francisco, which I hear is a fairly hilly city (I've never been, so I wouldn't know). Perhaps F. Fiorino's local grocery store is located on a hill, so whenever he/she takes his/her cart outside, it rushes down the hill--gravity is tricky that way.

This did get me to wonder whether people submit ideas that are fairly reasonable, but Scaduto just changes them around for humor reasons. Like, he'll read something and be like, "Yeah, that's true, but it needs to be funnier!" and then totally mess with it. I wonder if I contacted one of these people and asked whether the strip illustrated what was sent, whether the person would say yes, or whether the person would complain about how Scaduto messed with his/her idea.