| Author | Message | ||
     Midknyte |
Where do you live, and do people there return their carts [to the corrals]?  | ||
| Hootowl |
You've made a common mistake. Those are actually free-range shopping carts. I'm surprised the photographer was able to get that close to them in their natural environment. They spook easily and are known to ram violently into unsuspecting car doors when provoked. | ||
| Spiderman |
I think it is universal lazyness. I knew a guy, I forget where from, who was at a grocery store and watched a lady just push a cart away she was done with. He then went over with said cart and put it right behind her car. She got out all mad and pushed it away again. This went on a few times. So on the last run he grabbed the cart flipped it upside down behind her car and left LOL | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Giant friggin' pet peeve of mine. Walk your happy fat ass over to the cart return and put it where it belongs. Lazy sack of crap. | ||
| Babired |
That photo looks like Silent Hill! some do and some don't in my neck of the woods and do you all remember this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFx4Ff3aNFc | ||
| Cyclonedon |
I work in retail (Home Depot) and the lazy people who never put their carts in the corral are the ones who get the maddest when they come out and find that a shopping cart has rolled into their cars. I think it's justice but you don't want to tell anyone that when they are so pissed off. I had a lumber cart roll into my SUV once and it cost me $200.00 to have the dent taken out when the Suv was in the body shop for a rear end collision repair. | ||
| M2statz |
Our local grocery store offers a 3% discount coupon if they catch you returning your cart to the store. They put it on your saver card so you can only use/get one per day. | ||
| Fahren |
Folks in the poorer section of town here carry their groceries home in them, then leave them any old place not in front of their house for "someone else" to deal with. BTW, nice photo. (Message edited by fahren on February 24, 2010) | ||
| Ducbsa |
Another variation is leaving the cart in the striped area next to a handicap spot. | ||
| Iman501 |
i've seen this movie! the mist kills everybody! | ||
| 1313 |
Another variation, and the one that really irks me, is when the lazy SOB's leave their empty car in the same parking spot as my bike. I've always wanted to catch some dimwit in the act and give them a piece of my mind, but then the offender might have enough sense to return the damn cart... 1313 | ||
| Drkside79 |
Chicago land area. Some yes but most people are lazy pieces of Sh*t. | ||
| Johnnymceldoo |
One of my pet peeves at the supermarket/walmart are people who move at a snails pace as they are hunched over their carts dragging their feet oblivious to anyone else. People can be very selfish. | ||
| Aesquire |
I return them, a lot of people don't. I did move a cart left behind my car over behind the car of the lady who just used it & put it there. When she got out & yelled at me, I smiled, nodded, spoke cheerfully in a made up language, and got her more shopping carts from the loose ones around us. With cheerful hand gestures of the "here's what you wanted" variety, with lots of "Da,Da" & nodding. I thought I'd have to do cpr. | ||
| Iman501 |
i used to work at kroger last winter, and my job was to get the carts......to everybody who doesnt put them away......I HATE YOU ALL!!!! but thank you to those of you who would actually go take your carts back inside! | ||
| 86129squids |
LOL, Aesquire!! Gonna have to remember that one... | ||
| Faseljd |
They should do like Aldi stores. You have to put a quarter in to get a cart and to get your quarter back you have to take it back to the cart corral. | ||
| Danger_dave |
I try and launch it back into the trolley return from about 100 feet. Even better if there is a slope to curve it. | ||
| Dentguy |
It is a major pet peeve of mine also. But, it's good for the dent business. What to do, what to do. OK. Leave your runaway carts in the lot because it brings me plenty of dent work and I'll make sure I park at the top of the hill so it doesn't dent my personal ride. On the way in or out of the store, I'll hand out business cards.  Maybe it will hail on all the cars in the parking lot also. (Message edited by dentguy on February 24, 2010) | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
}damn brother, you look like one of the shopping cart people runnin around town. or are you just moving. you got that thing loaded to the gills.  I always return it to it,s own corral after use!  | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>i've seen this movie! the mist kills everybody!<< Most memorable ending to a b-grade movie ever. | ||
| Froggy |
People still go to supermarkets? I just order everything online. Problem solved. | ||
| Danger_dave |
But, how do you perv on all the good lookin' women onli.....ahhhh.....never mind. | ||
| Kyrocket |
You have just hit on one of my biggest pet peeves. First they push it around the store for an hour or better then they are too tired to push it an extra 20 ft. Just last week I was pulling into a spot and a woman had just left a cart in it, she was still getting her purse out of it. She got in her car and I pulled in as close to the cart as I could, got out, put it up in the corral RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER CAR and looked right at her and said, "it's not that hard." and got back into my car. I think she was embarrassed that I called her out on it. I then took that opportunity to explain to my three children sitting in the car about the laziness of not putting them where they go. I also always try to take one with me into the store as I go. I wish I was quick thinking like Aesquire and put it behind her car. | ||
| Glitch |
They should do like Aldi stores. You have to put a quarter in to get a cart and to get your quarter back you have to take it back to the cart corral. I was thinking the same thing. It also amazes me the power a quarter has. | ||
| Nm5150 |
At the Wal Mart in Springdale the Mexicans push their carts down the road a few blocks to the apartment complex and there was always a big pile of them there. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I usually take a cart in and bring it back out. Zero net impact. | ||
| Blake |
I'm spoiled, the local Brookshires sends the bag boy out with you, he loads the groceries into the vehicle and returns the cart. Southern folk are apparently just more civilized. Just be sure the bag boy isn't from your church and tattles on your weekly haul of beer and wine.  | ||
| Bent_mind |
An Atlanta area shopping center has carts that will lock-up the wheels if taken past the perimeter ( so the sign said ) | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Most urban supermarkets in the UK have a system that prevents the carts being rolled over a grid thingy at the exits to the parking. UK supermarkets generally have a crew of handicapped workers as "Trolley Boys" Most French supermarkets you have to put a 1 Euro coin or equivalent sized token in to release the cart. It's rare to see dumped trolleys. We used to tip them on one side & light a broken pallet in them for barbecueing on the beach at Rimini when were in Italy for the weekend. Sometimes be half a dozen of our trucks parked at the top of the beach. Ah happy days. Finally the supermarket manager twigged, & put aside broken pallets & carts for us, so we'd shop at his store. Smart Fella. |
