Cart door jerks, and Fire zone asshattery

[Crow The Robot]

Cart Door jerks
I would say that over the course of collectinc carts at WM I deal with these dopes a lot. They go out the cart door while I am atrying to push carts in, and they act like I am in THEIR way, it usuallt takes me about a minute to clear a path to the correct exit doors, but these fools would rather go through the cart door then wait one friggin' second.

On in particular stands out.
<slipping into Sylvia Petrillo mode>Picture it. New Jersey, 2006. A cold rainy day, i a getting my lasyt load of carts in before I leave for the day.( My fellow stockman and I am continue carts during this whole affair
ME: Me
CDB:Cart door B-tch
M: Manager who don't take sh-t
CDB:Hey, lazy ass, move it f-cker.
Me: Ma'am please go out the exit door, we are taking in carts and we do not want you to get hurt.
CDB: So? If I get hurt I just sue you all and get you fired, you stupid piece of sh-t.
M: Excise me , are you insulting my associate and using profanity.
CDW: Yeah, so what if I am, I need to gets home, my daughter is in the hospital. And you all just wasting my time. <ui should point out that roughly 19 people went around us and out the regular exit door during this timeframe>
M: Well, you can't go out that door they are brining carts in.
CDB: Do you think I'm bind I ned to get out. You are only doing this because I am christian, if I was a k-e like him you wouldn't...
M: Ma'am get out of the store via the regular exit and do not come back, if you do I will serve you with a tresspass order.No go.
CDB: I'll tell all the people at church about you.
M: Good. Go.

Fire zone asshats
Recently we had an associate pass out, might've been the heat inside the store it was pretty damn warm. The MODs called 911 and waited for the ambulance. While waitinga thit comes in and parks her car in the fire zone .
MOD: Manager
SC: You can guess this one, and it ain't Santa Claus
FA: Firefighter associate
MOD: Ma'am you can't park there.
SC: I'll only be a half hour.
MOD: Wwell, you can't...
SC: I can, you ain't the police and you can't fine me.
FA: Actually as a firefighter if I see a person parked illegally in a fire zone i di have authorization to report you to the proper authorities.
SC: Well, that's discrimination. i am never coming here again.
MOD: Cool.

[Tigress]

Fire zone asshats
Recently we had an associate pass out, might've been the heat inside the store it was pretty damn warm. The MODs called 911 and waited for the ambulance. While waitinga thit comes in and parks her car in the fire zone .
MOD: Manager
SC: You can guess this one, and it ain't Santa Claus
FA: Firefighter associate
MOD: Ma'am you can't park there.
SC: I'll only be a half hour.
MOD: Wwell, you can't...
SC: I can, you ain't the police and you can't fine me.
FA: Actually as a firefighter if I see a person parked illegally in a fire zone i di have authorization to report you to the proper authorities.
SC: Well, that's discrimination. i am never coming here again.
MOD: Cool.

I never ceases to amaze me when people will park in the fire lane in front of my local Wal-Mart. Sometimes they are waiting for someone that was "popping in real quick" to come out of the store, but the gods forbid that their passenger have to walk more than five feet to the damn door. And if someone has a medical emergency or a fire breaks out in the store...

Damn, except for Christmas and Tax-Free Weekend, the parking lot is rarely more than half full. I almost never have to park any farther than the second section. And your legs aren't broken people. And everyone knows that a trip to Wal-Mart is never quick. I spend at least an hour there and I don't go there unless I need some pants or fabric.

[MiloMorai]

On the fire lane part, This is why we love our local firefighters......Car parked illegally blocking lane or hydrant? Get the axe boys we got some windows to break. They will literally run the hose THROUGH the vehicle windows. If its the fire lane they will actually USE those nice big bumpers and shove the car out of the way. Way to go Salem, Oregon firefighters/EMTs.

[powerboy]

I had those assholes when I was a cart guy for WM. They would always get pissed off, when I keep the carts going as they are coming out. Hell, I would tell them once, and after that screw them. The managers told me to just go ahead if they don't listen.

[MadRocketScientist]

On the fire lane part, This is why we love our local firefighters......Car parked illegally blocking lane or hydrant? Get the axe boys we got some windows to break. They will literally run the hose THROUGH the vehicle windows. If its the fire lane they will actually USE those nice big bumpers and shove the car out of the way. Way to go Salem, Oregon firefighters/EMTs.

Lots of Fire Departments will do that. I recall the local news once upon a time reporting a guy getting a parking ticket for parking his BMW or Mercedes next to a fire plug, and the camera showing two 2.5" hoses running through all four broken side windows with water dripping into the car.

I laughed my ass off.

[rerant]

Ugh. At my work we have a cart hallway that cuts across the main entrance. I've never seen customers leave through the cart door, but when the guys push the carts into the store they go through a little (employee only) shortcut that leads directly into the marketplace where the carts are left for customers.
Customers are CONSTANTLY ducking through the shortcut to get to the cashlanes faster. (Otherwise they'd have to walk through the rest of the store. I work at Ikea, btw.)
Now if someone is walking through the shortcut at the same time one of the guys is pushing in a row of carts, the guys can NOT see them and the customer WILL get run over.
The other day I saw a couple of customers cuting through with their child who looked to be about three years-old.
I stopped and told them that under NO circumstances are they ever allowed to take that shortcut, and that areas that say EMPLOYEES ONLY, DANGER DO NOT ENTER! are not for customers.
They gave the standard, "we didn't want to walk around," excuse and I told them flatly, "I don't care. And neither does management. This is for your safety and you walk around. End of story."

I also sent them back through the shortcut and made them walk around, just for spite.

[Sandman]

When I worked at Wal-mart and they had my doing carts, I would always ask if I could get one other person to help me out for an hour and a half, and we would get all the carts in.

He would then go back to his department and I would get the straggling carts.

Management always let us because he would push a huge line, and I would steer and act as the brake.

[mattm04]

We had a police car parked in front of our store once. The officer was following up an a previous shoplifting incident. A lady pulls up in her Mercedes, parks in front of the cop, tells the officer "i'll only be a minute, don't ticket me," and walks in the store. Well, the cop waited until she got out to personally had her a ticket instead of sticking it on the windshield. Well, she wasn't happy and peeled out, not stopping for a ped. in a cross walk, that made ticket number 2.

[aurelemsrealm]

You can at least take comfort in the fact that the cart door Christian probably already has her spot reserved in Hell for an attitude like that.

Maybe I'm twisted, but I'm trying to imagine her experience in Hell -- standing at the pearly gates whining to get in Heaven except that she is blocked by an infinite line of carts.

The story of the Mercedes lady earning herself a second ticket after her little temper tantrum over the first ticket is priceless. I just love how karma sometimes bites people like that, especially if I'm there to witness it and laugh about it.

[AriRashkae]

On the fire lane part, This is why we love our local firefighters......Car parked illegally blocking lane or hydrant? Get the axe boys we got some windows to break. They will literally run the hose THROUGH the vehicle windows. If its the fire lane they will actually USE those nice big bumpers and shove the car out of the way. Way to go Salem, Oregon firefighters/EMTs.

Same thing in West Springfield, MA! And the best part was the cinemas I worked at abutted the fire station, so they were always coming in before opening to use our elevator for rescue drills.

And yes, they did show up for our fire drills. I think it made the day interesting. and it's not like they were far away and weren't suited if a call came in.

[It's me]

Lots of Fire Departments will do that. I recall the local news once upon a time reporting a guy getting a parking ticket for parking his BMW or Mercedes next to a fire plug, and the camera showing two 2.5" hoses running through all four broken side windows with water dripping into the car.

I laughed my ass off.

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/u...9;t=000330;p=1

[Polenicus]

We had a police car parked in front of our store once. The officer was following up an a previous shoplifting incident. A lady pulls up in her Mercedes, parks in front of the cop, tells the officer "i'll only be a minute, don't ticket me," and walks in the store.

Naturally not giving the cop, who was likely pretty flabbergasted at her cahones, a chance to tell her that NO, she CAN'T park there, and he WILL ticket her.

Naturally, that gives her the argument that 'He didn't tell me I couldn't!'

There seems to be a whole mess of people who grew up with the ingrained belief that if someone didn't specifically tell them not to do something, it was okay no matter how bad it was (Little Timmy didn't know not to set the dog on fire, we didn't tell him not to).

Of course, legally speaking, ignorance is no excuse. And thank god, too!

[Broomjockey]

the cop waited until she got out to personally had her a ticket instead of sticking it on the windshield. Well, she wasn't happy and peeled out, not stopping for a ped. in a cross walk, that made ticket number 2.

That's priceless!

There seems to be a whole mess of people who grew up with the ingrained belief that if someone didn't specifically tell them not to do something, it was okay no matter how bad it was

I believe there's two basic schools of thought on stuff like that. This one, which is "That which is not expressly prohibited is implicitly permitted," and the opposite, "That which is not explicitly permitted is prohibited." It seems to me a lot of schools used to run on the second, as you had to ask permission to do anything. But more and more it seems like everything is coming to the first, which is why you get stupid laws that tell people not to do very specific, bizzare acts that most people would never think of doing. My favorite example was for a while, in some states, it was illegal to attempt to commit suicide. The maximum penalty? Lethal injection. Smooth. Just take a couple minutes to think that one through on the myriad levels of "wha?"

[Tria]

My favorite example was for a while, in some states, it was illegal to attempt to commit suicide. The maximum penalty? Lethal injection. Smooth. Just take a couple minutes to think that one through on the myriad levels of "wha?"

My boyfriend just asked, and I shit you not.... "Is that called 'assisted suicide' then?".

[GolfCart34]

I've got a fire lane offender story to top them all. This one comes from when chops and I were going to one of our favorite grocery stores down in Virginia. Now, in Virginia, everybody and their father's uncle's friend's wife parks in the fire lane. Some park there for the longest time! I'm talking 30 minutes with the car left empty and unattended. Anyway, this one guy takes the cake. He literally decided to park his car on the sidewalk so his door was only about 5 feet away from the store entrance. That guy wasn't there very long anyway, because by the time we came out he was gone. I wonder if anybody called the cops on that moron.

Ok, if I am taking my grandmother to the store, I will stop in front of the store so she can get out and not have to walk across the parking lot. The key word in that sentence is stop, because once she was out of the car I went and parked. I have no problem with people stopping to let somebody else, then proceeding to park.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no excuse for ever just parking outside of a store. People have legs (or scooters/wheelchairs/whatever) so they need to park in a spot, and go in using that mode of transportation, just like the rest of us.