pet peeve: stray shopping carts

[Zebo]

I hung out in a walmart parking lot to staff my liquor store asking people who put their carts up if they had a job. Most did but ones that didnt I interviewed. Im weird like this oh well - by their deeds ye shall know them.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: KeithP
My personal belief is that it stems from wave after wave of parents that are more concerned about being their child's best friend rather than making the tough choices good parents have to make. Kids raised in this fashion simple aren't nice adults. But I will cut this short, I don't want to take the thread in another direction.

Booyah.

 

[SampSon]

When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

 

[rh71]

Walmarts are so packed here there's nowhere to leave the cart safely. At the BJs though the lot is wide open and the carts are all over. That's because it would take more than 10 seconds to walk back to the cart collection area, then back to the car. That was already a mile walk in that huge warehouse ya know. Anyway, it wouldn't be a problem if the collection areas were all over instead of just 1 place all the way up the aisle.

 

[Brainonska511]

Not every place has a cart collection area. I don't let my carts wonder around if there isn't one though. I'll leave it between spaces where it won't roll off or get in someone's way.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

No excuse. If it's warm enough for you to be outside and get your groceries its warm enough to finish the job. I've lived in the cold white north for years and you just do what you should. Period.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I worked as a bagger/the dude that gets the carts at a grocery store so I always put them back. Hated that people that didn't. Our store's parking lot was on a slight incline so there were always peoples cars getting hit by run away carts. They could get up some pretty impressive speeds by the bottom.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

No excuse. If it's warm enough for you to be outside and get your groceries its warm enough to finish the job. I've lived in the cold white north for years and you just do what you should. Period.

It's not warm enough for me to be outside, its absolute necessity that I get groceries to survive, temperature has nothing to do with that. If it was my choice I wouldn't be outside one second longer than absolutely necessary, and I work outside half of the day, all winter.

I've lived in the cold white north my entire life, so really I don't give two hairy shits how long you've lived up north. If the cart corral is more than 15 feet away from my car I'm not pushing that bastard to it, even if there is no ice/slush. Ok ok, I'll extend my cart corral radius to 25 feet for overbearing society police douche bags such as yourself. Happy?

Who exactly decided I must return my car to the corral anyway? Did the cartboy union lobby for that? Is it now some inexcusable social faux pas? I feel like I'm depriving those pimple faced cartboys the fresh air they deserve!

disclaimer: I almost always put the cart in those corrals, but there are times where it's just that much too far away. You don't like that? Too bad, kiss my ass.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

No excuse. If it's warm enough for you to be outside and get your groceries its warm enough to finish the job. I've lived in the cold white north for years and you just do what you should. Period.

It's not warm enough for me to be outside, its absolute necessity that I get groceries to survive, temperature has nothing to do with that. If it was my choice I wouldn't be outside one second longer than absolutely necessary, and I work outside half of the day, all winter.

I've lived in the cold white north my entire life, so really I don't give two hairy shits how long you've lived up north. If the cart corral is more than 15 feet away from my car I'm not pushing that bastard to it, even if there is no ice/slush. Ok ok, I'll extend my cart corral radius to 25 feet for overbearing society police douche bags such as yourself. Happy?

Who exactly decided I must return my car to the corral anyway? Did the cartboy union lobby for that? Is it now some inexcusable social faux pas? I feel like I'm depriving those pimple faced cartboys the fresh air they deserve!

disclaimer: I almost always put the cart in those corrals, but there are times where it's just that much too far away. You don't like that? Too bad, kiss my ass.

Age?

 

[SampSon]

Age?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Age?

KeithP suggests that it is a generational thing to not put carts in the corrals. I suggested that it is older folks who are less likely to put the carts in the corrals. I was looking for a data point.

 

[SampSon]

Ah. I'm 29.

Though my age has less to do with my unwillingness to put the cart in the corral. The distance to the cart corral from my car as it relates to the weather is a more defining factor.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

So you rather leave carts where it could potentially damage someone's property because you can't be bothered to be cold an extra couple seconds? Please... :disgust:

20mph winds is an even bigger reason to put the carts away as they are even more likely to cause damage when they get pushed around by the wind.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

So you rather leave carts where it could potentially damage someone's property because you can't be bothered to be cold an extra couple seconds? Please... :disgust:

20mph winds is an even bigger reason to put the carts away as they are even more likely to cause damage when they get pushed around by the wind.

The 20mph wind comment was for effect, it was probably a poor choice given the topic.

Yes, if it involves me pushing a cart an extra 100 feet in the freezing cold, then I will take the risk of damaging someone else's property, or potentially my own property. Sucks huh? Deal with it. Guess I'm not a good samaritan, but I'm really not trying to be.

Though if you read the thread and my disclaimer, I keep the cart abandonment to an absolute minimum. Though on the rare occurrence of intentional cart abandonment, I don't feel bad about it what-so-ever.

 

[looker001]

Because it's not our job to put them back. Store has people walking around collecting the carts.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I still put them away even when it is -30 out with a wind chill of -60 (which meant I had to leave the damn car running while in the store).

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: looker001
Because it's not our job to put them back. Store has people walking around collecting the carts.

Kind of like how it's not your job to not steal better TVs that you didn't order? Interesting....

 

[MyThirdEye]

I've hit a stray cart with my car one time.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: SampSon
When it's 5 degrees outside with 20 mph winds and I'm not within 15 feet of a cart corral, it's going to be abandon in the middle of the lot.

So you rather leave carts where it could potentially damage someone's property because you can't be bothered to be cold an extra couple seconds? Please... :disgust:

20mph winds is an even bigger reason to put the carts away as they are even more likely to cause damage when they get pushed around by the wind.

The 20mph wind comment was for effect, it was probably a poor choice given the topic.

Yes, if it involves me pushing a cart an extra 100 feet in the freezing cold, then I will take the risk of damaging someone else's property, or potentially my own property. Sucks huh? Deal with it. Guess I'm not a good samaritan, but I'm really not trying to be.

Though if you read the thread and my disclaimer, I keep the cart abandonment to an absolute minimum. Though on the rare occurrence of intentional cart abandonment, I don't feel bad about it what-so-ever.

We're on the same wavelength here.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: looker001
Because it's not our job to put them back. Store has people walking around collecting the carts.

Kind of like how it's not your job to not steal better TVs that you didn't order? Interesting....

Don't feed the troll zin...

KT

 

[Freshgeardude]

Because of these lazy people, we have more jobs! Insta support by obama and his followers

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: ironwing
I miss my old Suburban. Gently nudging carts out of the parking spot I wanted and watching them go flying across the lot. Very satisfying.

I do that too.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

These people are just leaving opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs:

<Bubbles>

Ricky just waltzes in there and becomes the king of the carts.

The fuck does he expect me to do for a living?

What does he want me to do, go to EI and say hello there, i've been hauling shopping carts out of ponds and ive been doing it for 18 years...so give me a fuckin cheque please?

</Bubbles>

 

[fleshconsumed]

This and other people swinging their car doors open are the reasons why I usually park away from everybody else, at the end of the parking lot if I have to.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Zebo
I hung out in a walmart parking lot to staff my liquor store asking people who put their carts up if they had a job. Most did but ones that didnt I interviewed. Im weird like this oh well - by their deeds ye shall know them.

I like that idea.