It was so named in its early days in the 1870s because of the presumably flea-infested furniture among the goods carted in from the city's trash heaps by vendors known as "rag and bone men".
He has had enough clownish mishaps to leave one perfectly good golf cart under water and to have at least once used a club to swat raccoon dung.
Just to cart around goods that it sells in its stores, the company employs some sixty-eight hundred trucks, which annually consume at least a hundred and twenty-five million gallons of diesel fuel.
Volunteers then went on a shopping rampage, stuffing goods into carts.
Having parked somewhere behind the smallest of Saturn's moons, you have to trudge on foot across what feels like the width of a small county, lugging all your equipment on your back, staring grimly at smartarses who'd had the good sense to cart their stuff on to the site in a wheelbarrow.
Heck, even if you're tooling through town on the way to pick up coffee and bagels for breakfast, you're constantly being bathed by good, old-fashioned go-cart driving sensations.
Earlier this week Google received a patent for a system in which a hovering drone would lower goods into a cart, which would then transport the package to a safe holding spot, such as in a garage.
Even those who think they've been good and leave carting a large doggie bag (and nearly everyone does) will dread getting on the scale the next day.
