Stroller Scam

So I decided I would take the kids to do some holiday shopping while charity was at school. It was late and past their bedtime, but what the heck, I am super dad. What could go wrong? Believe it or not, the actual shopping went well so it is not the topic of this blog. However, I would like to take some cyber bandwidth and complain about what I call the mall "stroller scam"
For many of you who spend way too much time in the mall this may not be a mind blowing insight, but some of you may get a kick out of this.
I just get through the door at the Southtown mall and I see the rack of strollers you can rent. Deacon is tired, I don't have a stroller and I don't want to carry him the whole time. Seeing all of these car strollers almost brought me to tears because I knew deacon would love riding in the brrmmm brrmm. The excitement disappeared when I saw that it was going to cost me five #*@!#% dollars. "Oh, but they will give me a dollar back if I return the cart, so it won't be so bad." Troy thought to himself. Plus they take Visa. "Wow, what a cool idea" Troy thought to himself again. Obviously I rented a stroller and we went on our way.
Fast forward in your mind to the returning of the cart. Here I am ready to get my dollar back for the cart and what do you know. They pay me back in quarters. I thought "what the (expletive entered) am I going do with four quarters. Why can't they just put it back on my card?" Just as I had this thought I noticed a row of like at least a dozen gumball machines filled with wonderfully colorful gumballs.
"Oh, I get it you bunch of freaking rip-offs. You are going to charge me five bucks to use a stroller for a half hour, promising me a dollar back if I return the cart, and then take it right back because you know **** well that I can't tell my kids they can't have a gumball because I don't have any quarters. They just saw me grab a huge handful of them out of your stupid machine. (Deep breath in) You bunch of thugs. My props on running such a crafty scam.
I am proud to say that unlike many a naive folk. They didn't get a single one of my quarters.