Lazy shopping cart lady gets owned!

[LillFilly]

So, I was on duty yesterday driving through the parking lots. I get to the All Fart Lot and I see an angry looking man talking to a woman sitting in her car. I pull-over and look at them. The man walked over to me and I asked what the problem was. He told me that he had seen the woman load her groceries into her car, then just push her cart into another space and hop in! He told her that he thought she was very lazy for not walking the 15 feet to put her cart in a corral, and didn't she have any consideration for people that might want that space or might not want their car damaged by a flyaway cart, or for the employees that have to walk around collecting them. At this point I'm nodding in agreement and the woman might have thought I was going to talk to her too because she got out of her car, grabbed the cart and brought it to the corral. She even grabbed another cart on her way and put that away too. She was glaring daggers the whole time and I was surprised that she didn't come to me later and complain that I didn't stop the man from 'threatening her.' Personally, I'm just glad someone said what I can't while I'm on-duty.

[Mnemjian]

What an awesome guy! Lady got pwned~ It's just really unbelievable how lazy a person can be. Most stores have cart corrals all over the place, too. The supermarket I use has a tendency to get REALLY busy at times, and that means they usually don't have a spare employee to go around collecting stray carts. So at the busiest time you would not believe how many shopping carts are just strewn around the lot, taking up spaces and rolling in the way of cars. Soooo annoying

[Andara Bledin]

I'm always making snarky comments to the lazy cows who can't be arsed to push their carts an extra 20 feet to the corral.

And it's almost always women. I hardly ever see guys pulling this crap, for some reason.

^-.-^

[blas]

Guys don't do that, because it's so much fun for a man of nearly any age to ride the cart and send it zooming at 100mph into the cart corral

That drives me nuts, too. I hate when lazy shits leave carts in empty parking spaces, especially on windy days because it doesn't take much to get those carts moving, and they'll be wheeling away all over the parking lot and hitting cars.

[mikoyan29]

Back in my grocery store days I used to chase carts every so often, so I know how much not fun it is to do that. I always put my cart in the corral (plus it helps pretending I'm Steve Yzerman on a wrap around or something......). I've never yelled at someone though, but it might be fun...but sucky.

One thing I used to hate was when people would tilt the cart up so the front wheels were over a curb or something like a boat.

[EricKei]

Well, at least the cart won't roll away if they do that last one

I've found that rainy days are even worse than windy ones -- people will just leave the carts wherever, "double parking" them behind others' cars even more than usual, and then they whine that even the carts in the main cart corrall are all wet!

[Jay 2K Winger]

THANK YOU RANDOM GUY!

As I've mentioned (I think) in past posts o' mine, Mondays and Wednesdays at the wholesale club, my coworker JB and I go out about an hour or an hour and a half before closing to stock carts inside and gather up all the loose carts in our lot.

There are always a few toward the extreme edges of the lot, which are a PITA to have to get and bring back, especially when you end up getting more than four, causing the line to start to leeeeeean to one side because of the slight incline to the pavement.

[MadMike]

Guys don't do that, because it's so much fun for a man of nearly any age to ride the cart and send it zooming at 100mph into the cart corral

Guilty as charged.

[Chromatix]

When I still lived in England, I would regularly ride my bicycle (with HUGE panniers) a mile to the better supermarket (rather than half a mile to the less-good one).

But there were no "corrals", as you Yanks call them, near the bike racks. So when I'd finished carefully stuffing everything into the panniers - which were truly Tardis-like when handled properly - I had a particular spot, out of the way and against a wall, to leave the trolley. This meant that I only had to step a few yards away from my freshly-loaded bike.

Bear in mind that this was also right next to the disabled/family parking, and so the spot I found was next to the "special" trolley parking, but it was a normal trolley.

[NightWatch]

Only slightly on topic... The grocery store I normally go to just had a complete remodel, including the parking lot and they took out all the conventiently located corrals. Their are now only 2 for the whole lot at the very front. I still always make sure I take my cart back, but it sucks during bad weather. I can't wait for there to be 4 inches of slush on the ground and having to push the cart back through all that crap.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Might as well tell this story again!

Some woman and her mom, pushing their cart of bagged purchases through the parking lot as I'm bringing carts back into the store. When everything is unloaded from the cart into their vehicle, mom goes to return the cart to the corral.

Daughter pipes up "Oh no mom, don't worry about that, the store pays people to bring those back inside." Right in front of me.

I was speechless. It isn't all that often that somebody decides to declare their assholery right in front of me.

[EricKei]

Only slightly on topic... The grocery store I normally go to just had a complete remodel, including the parking lot and they took out all the conventiently located corrals. Their are now only 2 for the whole lot at the very front. .

The Winn-Dixie stores here have begun to do that, as well. THey don't need more parking spots, that's for sure. I don't think I have EVER seen their lot full since the tech school that used to be next door shut down (you know, the one that forbade its students and workers from parking in WD's lot...)

[mattm04]

Or the assholes who decide the handicap spaces are easier than the corral. Or the morons who just give it a push and get in the car and leave. So what if it just hit a car a few spaces down at full sped and fell over.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Or the assholes who decide the handicap spaces are easier than the corral.

That's like the switch-around version of when you see some fuckwit parking their car IN the empty cart corral.

[Kogarashi]

This is why I always make a point to tell my toddler that once the cart's empty, we have to put it in the corral, even if the nearest corral is several yards away. I'm hoping that one of these days, one of those lazy types will overhear our conversation ("Now what do we do with the cart, Oldest?" "Put it in corral!") and feel embarrassed enough to repent, as it were.