Yeah i've noticed that sort of thing as well. How ridiculous. As if I want to first off spend all that damn time grocery shopping and then not even have someone scan and sack my groceries for me. Self-checkout lines are the worst.
Just to satisfy my curiosity: The one time that it happened, did you know that you'd be able to find a parking spot right next to either the coral or a loose cart before you left the house with your children? Was the plan just to drive around the parking lot until you find such a parking spot? No, but I've been a little kid and remember how things were growing up for myself and friends. I don't recall parents constantly feeling the need to hover over us once we get to, say, kindergarten and elementary school.
I'll answer the question. You want answers? You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! Son, we live in a world that has shopping carts, and those carts have to be returned to the cart corral by men with kids. Who's gonna do it? You? You, B-Bob? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for rocketsjudoka's bumper, and you curse the shopping carts. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That rocketsjudoka's bumper damage, while tragic, probably saved kid's lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves kid's lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at grocery stores, you want me in that parking lot, you need me in that parking lot. We use words like sit down, put that down, don't touch that. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent taking twin 4-year olds to the hardware store to give Mom some well-deserved alone time. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you have a couple of kids, and take them shopping with you. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Honda Civic. Its actually not too hard to crack a bumper as they are actually designed to crack. I didn't see the impact but it looked like the corner of the cart caught the bumper just in front of the corner of the bumper. A weak point of the bumper.
The high-end ones in the Twin Cities have them, but usually you sack your own or the checker sacks them as they scan them.
Can we get a pic of said bumper damage? This should be interesting to see what a cart can do to a bumper. Good thing you weren't in the car with it turned on or an air bag might have deployed.
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I used to leave them on the lot because...well, just because. Besides, if parents of small kids couldn't set a good example, who the hell am I to show them up? Where I live they introduced the deposit a coin and get it back when you return the cart. Now everyone returns them. Even me. Coming to Houston real soon. And I didn't know bumpers where that fragile. I'm thinking I should strap some old tires to the bumper like an old fishing boat. Or maybe just stay away from the mall.
They had these at the Auchan off Beechnut like 25 years ago, and look where that got them. Maybe people should equip their kids with these coin slots so anyone who steals them is out a quarter.
