I own a nice, new car, and I want to keep it that way. Why is it that some people, who probably own some piece of shit beater car that is probably held together with duct tape feel the need to completely disrespect others around them by leaving their carts floating around, risking damaging other cars, rather than putting them back?
Let’s go over some of the excuses read and see if we can come up with some more:
I have kids and I don’t want to leave them unattended - bullshit. As already mentioned before, you can park closer to the corral, or whoever-forbid, take the damn kids with you for the 30 seconds of walking involved in returning it. Again, as already mentioned, don’t hide your laziness behind your kids. I don’t want to hear ‘you don’t have kids, you wouldn’t understand’. Fuck you. If you think having kids absolves you of respect and decency of your fellow man, maybe you shouldn’t be fucking having kids (a whole 'nother thread can be made there).
It’s just a car, get over it - fuck you. I kept my little Ford Ranger for over 11 years so that when the time came, I could get myself something nice. I’m sorry if you are in financial straits or cannot appreciate why you cannot have something nice yourself, but if you are resentful of a nice car because you cannot afford one (perhaps you are in these straits because you DON"T take care of the stuff you currently have?), that still doesn’t make it okay to leave the carts out there, ready to ding. I don’t give a shit HOW you feel about the whole ‘car’ thing and whether they are wastes of money or not, it is MY FUCKING CAR and I will thank you to respect it thankyouverymuch.
I don’t really have a 3 I guess so the list is shorter than I thought, but it doesn’t make me any less pissed that people can be so incosiderate and then try to justify it with some lame-ass excuse. Just put the goddamn cart away!
If you are so hung up about your car, don’t go near parking lots. It aint the shopping carts that are so bad (you can see them) but the person who parks next to you to close, bangs their door against your side panelling and then squeezes between both cars whilst the keys in their back pocket do evil to your paint work.
Still people who don’t put shopping carts back or in corals are wankers.
While I was one of those honest people who admitted to occasionally not coralling the cart, I’d like to point out that I never said I left them sailing through the lot. In fact, I don’t think anyone in that thread did. It *is * possible to place a cart between the parking bumpers, over curbs, and in the mulch beds (at least at my store) where they are just as secure as in the corrals. The only difference is that the workers have to retrieve it from there rather than the corral. And forgive me if I don’t find that a horrifying prospect. My job’s full of petty annoyances too, isn’t yours?
And no, my car isn’t held together with duct tape, but if thinking it is makes you feel better go right ahead.
I understand your point of view, seriously, but here’s my take on it—You’re the one with a beautiful car you want to protect, right? So either
A.) park in the super-duper far corner where no carts are and shield your investment. Or,
B.) park in the thick of things where carts may or may not be corralled, where the corrals are often overflowing, and where other cars will inevitably park beside you with their potentially ding-inducing doors, and then go into fits of uncontrollable rage and depression when you end up with a scratch on your car door.
Can you guess which one I think is more reasonable?
My wife told me last night that Atkin’s dieters, because of some chemical imbalance, have a tendency to go into bouts of depression and/or rage. I don’t know if it is true, but if it is, I guess it shows.
Leaving a cart in a mulch bed I’m cool with, it is unlikely to roll, but it is foolish to think that ‘gently nestling or resting’ your cart in the pavement will keep it from rolling. As soon as a breeze comes, BAM, you’re fucked. Nobody said they sent their carts ‘sailing’, but if they leave it unsecured in a lot, they are only one step from doing so.
Also, here is the ‘cart paradox’. I can, and sometimes do, park in remote areas of the lot, but guess what, if anyone else does it, they are more likely to not put their cart away because they are so far from the corrals. I can park right next to the corral and it is generally safer there, but then I have to watch for assholes who will scratch it up with their doors.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not treating my car like it is my first born, but at the same time, I don’t want it shit on either (literally or figuratively).
Just as an aside, I saw one of those newer plastic shopping carts get caught by a stiff wind in a big flat parking lot. Sumbitch got up to about 20mph, all I could think was “I’m glad my car is way over here!” :eek: Luckily, it didn’t actually hit anything, but who knows about the next one…
While we’re on the subject, I’d like to pit those who can’t pile their shopping baskets (the ones you carry) in a reasonable manner. I don’t think this deserves a separate thread, so I’m keeping this rant here…
Anyway, why is it that almost nobody, it seems, can resist just tossing their shopping baskets at the end of the register, where people can trip on them and have no room to put their empty baskets. There is NO excuse to throw them all over the place, all you have to do is put them down inside the last empty basket so they stay under the food belt and not in the way of anybody. Oh, and you know what? If the handles of the last basket are inside of it, causing you to not be able to put your basket right inside of it…YOU CAN MOVE THE HANDLES! It’s allowed!
argh…not really a very important rant, I guess, but it just seems like nobody can handle those little baskets…hell, it’s not even like you have to go anywhere to return them, just lean over and take two seconds to put your basket away while you’re waiting for your food to be scanned.
If you are trying to find out if what she said is true, I can’t say one way or the other.
If you want me to find a cite that my wife said what she said, you’ll just have to take my word for it as I don’t think her conversations are documented anywhere.
:dubious: And here I thought people believing they where inherently better than others simply because they own an expensive car was a myth. Apparently not.
People who don’t put back carts are being lazy and inconsiderate. Traits that transect every level of car ownership. On what do you base the idea that the lazy inconsiderate ones are owners of beat up cars, and not, rather, owners of very very nice cars who just don’t care about any car other than there own?
I don’t care if you own a 2004 Saab convertible, or a 1988 Ford Ranger, or a 1977 Ford Escort. What I meant by the statement was that people who don’t put their shit away when they are done with it, and fail to show personal responsibility, and fail to respect those around them, are likely the kind of people who fail to be able to own nice things. As a result, their car, and again, I don’t care what year or type it is, probably reflects their inability to ‘take care of their stuff’ and it probably falling apart at the seams.
My little truck, although starting to show its age at 11, was still a thing of pride for me. I kept it cleaned, kept up the maintenance on it, and tried to keep it rust free (a tiny patch had developed on the hood). If I was one of those ‘shopping carts go a-flying’ type folks, I would imagine said truck would have a hole in the floorboards, have the passenger door be a different color, and have a small family of chihuahuas living in the glove compartment. It reflects the attitude and behavior of the person, regardless of one’s income level.
My favorite shopping cart incident well one of them occured at Target. I was getting into my car and the woman parked next to me, who had a Mercedes of some sort, was finishing putting her stuff in her car then she proceded to put her cart directly behind my car :eek: My car was running and I had the windows down, so I said to her “could you please not put your cart behind my car, put it in the cart thingy” She got all huffy, like how dare a woman in a Saturn speak to her as such. She did, however, move her cart
Fair enough. (Though your comment that they might be resentful of you for having a nice car when they couldn’t afford one may have coloured my response.)
Nonetheless, though, I see it more as a question of being inconsiderate than negligent, really. Inconsiderate much like the folks who take up three parking spaces to assure that their car won’t get scatched. Not that I’m saying people who look after their stuff are more inconsideratre…or that you would ever do such a thing . Just that failure to respect those around you crops up all over.
Nope sorry you handled this wrong.
You should have jumped out of your car and moved the car to behind her car without saying a word.
Then jumped back in your car and pulled out laughing your ass off.
Either that or yelled “Hey bitch you forgot something”
My least favorite cart story is from the first weekend I owned my very first new car. I went shopping in Pasadena. I parked on purpose at the last stall arround the side of the building at least 50 spaces away from the nearest car, so my nice new car would not get damaged. I came out after shopping to find a car against the RR quarter panel with a very nice ding. I had overlooked the fact that the lot was not level. So some pea brained asshole had let his/her cart go up by the front of the store where it got a 100 yard head start and ran into my car.
Fucking shit for brains :mad:
My “almost” worst one was a woman with a kid who looked to be about four years old who was in charge of pushing the cart to the car. The cart must’ve had 30 bags in it…mounding to well over normal capacity…with a couple cases of pop on the bottom.
The kid was nowhere near strong enough to handle it (shit…I couldn’t have handled it!) and it got away from him – and it was headed straight for my car.
. Just that failure to respect those around you crops up all over.