How difficult is it to put your shopping cart back into the cart return when you’re finished shopping? What’s more frustrating than finding the perfect parking spot only to find in mid-turn a rogue cart. URGH!!! What’s up with leaving your cart in the parking spot you are leaving? Don’t you know that as soon as you leave, the abandoned cart turns renegade, hunting you down, not caring what other vehicles are in its path? Haven’t you ever seen the lone run-a-way cart sailing across the parking lot? I guarantee it’s not the wind blowing it along. So much for that shiny new paint job! Don’t even get me started on the people who park their empty carts NEXT to the cart return. Are you kidding me? Four more inches and you’ve hit your mark. I’m hoping you’re more accurate while you shove that fork into your mouth. I suppose not stabbing yourself in the eye takes precedence over shopping cart etiquette.
You know who I’m talking to…you indolent pushers! Store owners put the cart returns in parking lots for a reason. Looking pretty and wasting a good parking spot isn’t why. It’s only common courtesy to put your carts away when you are done. It’s quite simple really. Follow me…empty cart contents into your vehicle. Extend arms, grip cart handle, and gently push while carefully steering shopping cart to cart return home base. Should said cart return be full of shopping carts, mindfully insert said cart into existing carts back side. Release handle, walk away. Now, how hard was that?
There are only three legitimate reasons for not putting your cart away:
1. The extremely elderly, as they were lucky enough to find their car the first time around. Let’s not push their luck and ask them to walk away and try to do it again.
2. Families with young children. Heaven forbid the kids reach over and lock mom or dad out of the car thus resulting in the ever embarrassing 911 calls for help in extracting said children from car.
3. Being caught in a down pour with the cart return more than 6 cars away. Unless of course you are carrying an emergency floatation device.
THAT’S IT!!! No other excuses. Heed this warning my friends…Think twice before you walk away from that displaced shopping cart! If the cart doesn’t haunt you, I will chase you down myself…. I know where you parked your car…. BWAAHAHAHA!!!
You know who I’m talking to…you indolent pushers! Store owners put the cart returns in parking lots for a reason. Looking pretty and wasting a good parking spot isn’t why. It’s only common courtesy to put your carts away when you are done. It’s quite simple really. Follow me…empty cart contents into your vehicle. Extend arms, grip cart handle, and gently push while carefully steering shopping cart to cart return home base. Should said cart return be full of shopping carts, mindfully insert said cart into existing carts back side. Release handle, walk away. Now, how hard was that?
There are only three legitimate reasons for not putting your cart away:
1. The extremely elderly, as they were lucky enough to find their car the first time around. Let’s not push their luck and ask them to walk away and try to do it again.
2. Families with young children. Heaven forbid the kids reach over and lock mom or dad out of the car thus resulting in the ever embarrassing 911 calls for help in extracting said children from car.
3. Being caught in a down pour with the cart return more than 6 cars away. Unless of course you are carrying an emergency floatation device.
THAT’S IT!!! No other excuses. Heed this warning my friends…Think twice before you walk away from that displaced shopping cart! If the cart doesn’t haunt you, I will chase you down myself…. I know where you parked your car…. BWAAHAHAHA!!!
I'm so with you on this! How lazy and rude do you have to be not to put your cart away?!
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