This has been one of my pet peeves and today reminded me why. I've been annoyed by people who don't put shopping carts back into cart corrals but just leave them when they finish loading their cars. These cars end up clogging up parking spaces and on a windy day become missiles rolling around the parking lot. I went to go deposit a check for my business and the closest branch for our bank is in a grocery store. I go and deposit the check and pick up a couple of things from the store. I'm probably there for less than 10 minutes and when I come out sure enough a loose shopping cart has rammed into and cracked my bumper! Just don't get how thoughtless people can be with their carts. It only takes a few seconds to put a cart away and I will even often put a few loose carts away before or after a store. Apparently a lot of people just can't be bothered to do so and make it worse for everyone..
That cart must have been going fast to crack your bumper. How strong are the winds at your location? I usually just park away from everybody. It's worth an additional 30 seconds-1 minute of walking time to avoid things like this.
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When you walked into the store, did you take a cart with you? It's virtually zero effort to do so. It's a pain to walk a cart back to the store when you are done. But if everybody simply grabbed a cart from the lot when walking in then problem solved. It's odd to me that people almost universally overlook this simple thing.
Yeah, a lot of people just don't understand that their actions and inactions affect others around them. No amount of beating would fix this, I suspect, either.
It is not his fault (or anyone's fault) for failing to take a cart into the store with them. Most Twin Cities stores that have carts also have very conveniently located cart corrals. There is no excuse to not put the cart securely into the cart corral after one is finished with it. Also, in is not incumbent upon the potential shopper to do the duty of the store's employees or the shoppers who have already used the cart.
You don't even have to walk a cart back to the store though. Most grocery stores and shopping centers have the drop-off cages for the carts all over the parking lot. It's really not much effort to leave your cart in one.
A couple of weeks ago, my mother was shopping at a crappy little Walmart Grocery. When she came out of the store, the cart guy was out corralling the carts. She loads her stuff and gets in the car. Well this ******* moved a cart behind her car and left it there while he gathered other carts. And she couldn't see it out of her mirrors. She made eye contact with the guy several times as she was backing out and he never tried to warn her that there was a cart behind her. He just left the cart there and let her hit it. *******.
Everything you said is technically accurate and I agree. But you missed my point. Bringing in a cart is easy and it's simply a nice thing to do. Are you required to do it? No. If someone had, the OP wouldn't have a dent. There are always DBs in the world, I try my best to not be one of them. You don't HAVE to walk on old lady across the street. But if you can and are able, why do you not do it? Just food for thought. Carry on.
I can't count the # of times as a Grocery Sacker in High School that I saw a cart someone left begin to roll across the parking lot (gaining speed) and smashing into a car light or bumper. I've got no love for lazy people who don't put the carts in the corrals.
Agree, it's not much effort to drop your cart in a cage, however, you don't have any control of what other people do. It's also not much effort to walk a cart in from the lot and you DO have control over that.
I'm not going to blame it on immigrants, but I expect people who were raised here to have the etiquette to walk all of 30-feet to put away their shopping cart.
Yes I put away a cart, not into the store but into a cart corral. if you see in the original post I say I frequently will put some carts away before and after I visit the store.
I went to Lowes this weekend and had my boys with me. I usually park right next to a cart cage so I can grab a cart and put my boys in it, then go into the store. Then when I come back out, I can just put the cart back in the cage, since it's 2 feet from my car. This time, there were no spots near a cart cage. When I came back out, I had to take my stuff out of the cart, put it in my car, then take my boys out of the cart and strap them into their seats. When it's just the 3 of us, I'm pretty paranoid about leaving my boys in the car unattended for even a few seconds. So I just left my cart by my car. I made sure it was secure and wouldn't roll, but that's it. Sorry, I'm not going to risk someone jumping in my car and stealing it with my boys in the back seat while I walk a cart 50 yards away to put it in a cage.
sometimes if you have kids you don't want to leave them in the car while you take the time to return the cart -- especially if there isn't a cart corral nearby. So it's not always possible to return the carts every time. A lot of stores have folks that collect the carts from the parking lot to help with this. sometimes you're just a victim of bad luck and have to take it as it comes... EDIT: Imadrummer just hit the nail on the head
It actually wasn't that windy today but the lot is sloped for drainage and the cart might've picked up speed that way or just happened to catch the bumper at a weak spot.
Cool. I'm not passing judgement on you in particular. Just generally saying as a PSA that few people give 2nd thought to the fact that they pass 20 carts in the lot just to grab one on the inside. Someone's bumper and/or that poor b*stard that has to hull in 85 carts in 100 degree heat will appreciate it.
They need carts that drive themselves back to storage, like Roombas. Instead Google is working on cars that drive themselves? That's dumb. The best part is, it would eliminate more jobs.
Did the store not have cart corrals at all or just a handful? I understand you value your kids above all else but have you considered locking your car for the few seconds it would take to return a cart so someone couldn't steal your kids? To me it just doesn't seem all that much of a risk to take what usually wouldn't be more than half minute of time.
