So, I’m at the grocery store Sunday looking for a parking spot. I see one up ahead but when I get there, a grocery cart is in the middle of it. I get out, move the cart and park.
I know it’s a minor thing but God I find that irritating. I don’t blame the employees that move the carts back to the corral because they can’t be everywhere at once. I blame lazy shoppers who can’t be bothered to return the carts to the corral themselves. As well, once I saw five grocery carts taking up four handicapped parking spaces. Obviously shoppers finish loading their car and push the empty cart in to the adjacent parking spot. How lazy (not to mention disrespectful) can you get? —Wobbly Wheel
This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.
really? that’s your only complaint in life?…
Why let it bother you….find another parking spot!!
Lazy ass people. That is all.
It pisses me off too, especially on a windy day!
OP, and your point is? Those parking lots of huge, there is plenty of parking. If someone wants to put a cart there, who cares. The cart gathering employee will eventually lasso it and rope it back into the corral. As for the handicap spots, they always have the best spots, along with “knocked up” mothers, and the latest…..senior parking. Park wherever you like. Ever notice how no one ever gets towed from a grocery store parking lot.
sometimes o.p., one of those suckers goes errant, and if there is a good wind, it will move along at a good clip. was in sobeys in sprytown about 10 years ago, parked my truck, got out, and then i hear bang, turn around, and here is a fucking cart in my grill. no one but me about, no carts in sight anywhere near where i was parked. no other cars even close to me. not at 10 p.m. at night.
just makes you wonder, if they hide and wait for an unwary parker, then rush out of hiding, to score a hit on your fucking ride. sure seems like it sometimes. and this also happens in apt. building parking lots too. saw a guy about a week or so back, get one right in his back leg. and this this far from a store.
Valid bitch, no excuse for that kind of laziness. If someone’s abandoned grocery cart scratched my car I’d make a scene and demand to see the videotape so I could track down that lazy POS with the bill. Some people make me sick. Fuck, it’s kind of fun to run the cart back to corall, gives me a sense of accomplishment and task completion.
The best is when people unload their groceries on the check out counter, pay, and walk away leaving their cart in the middle of the aisle for someone else to move. Stupid. It takes a few seconds to at LEAST move it out of the way.
I noticed some backlash about this bitch, calling you (OB) lazy… I disagree. I agree with you. It’s dangerous for paint jobs to leave carts out in the middle of the parking lot, not to mention annoying to always, in some form or other, be cleaning up after other completely capable people. Funny thing is, I’ll bet the people that do that also complain about it when others do!
i like doing that too tommy. i think mr. farmer meant the cart leaver types are lazy js
I’ve been a cart boy before at the grocery store, and this is a totally valid bitch. It’s not just that the “wind” left it there… if it did, then it probably would’ve kept on moving it. Lol.
I hate it. It’s so freaking irritating the way people handle them. The most annoying thing was having to run to the other end of the parking lot because someone didn’t wanna walk the few extra steps carrying their groceries. It’s not that it’s hard to get them, it’s just the principle of it.