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By popular demand....here is my very first blogless post:

I guess it really isn't considered travel tips if you live somewhere - but I thought I would give my sound advice to those of you who would like to visit New York and are inclined to go to Target in Brooklyn.

1. Make sure you decide to drive the mile and a half - it's actually quite close, but you never know how much you'll think about in the bumper to bumper traffic.
2. Get lost.
3. It's two levels - and you won't know where anything is, so go up and down the escalator a lot
4. People like to read at Target in Brooklyn - on the sample furniture. College students in rumpled clothes - perhaps to escape their roomates? Yes, they sit around and read.
5. Formulate a question...such as "Do you have those carts? You know, the kind that you carry laundry or groceries in? The kind that grama's use? They fold up...have wheels? Do you know where those are?" and ask many different employees - trust each one and search in sporting goods, home storage, luggage, kitchen stuff and laundry supplies. No carts. If i'm sending you this email, you are most likely from the midwest (or just NICE) and you will be polite - that doesn't really help.
6. That's another good point - Brooklyn is really, really big and this is the only Target. Plan on interacting with A LOT of people and be prepared....most of the stuff that you came here to buy will be out of stock.
7. Buy everything and wheel the cart out of the store. There will be a cop there who won't let you bring stuff to your car. Go get the car.
8. $7 parking!
9. Drive around, put on flashers and walk in to get the cart from the cop. There will be a few men standing there - don't worry, these are not target employees! They will "help" you push your cart out to the car and you'll need to pay them a couple of bucks.
10. Don't forget to find parking in the neighborhood and lug all of your shit down the block and up the stairs.