This qualifies as a great debate in my household; however, I am not sure here.
When you are at a grocery store, supermarket, one of those fancy all in one stores like Walmart, what do you call that metal thing with wheels that you put your items in?
I am from central Indiana as is my wife; we call it two different things. I am of the shopping cart school of thought while she insists it is a buggy. I constantly tease her that there are no horses pulling it around.
Just a simple question, what do you call it?
P.S. I hope I did post this in the right place . . I almost made it a pit. . .
That’s a cart. Show the missus the signs in the Wal-Mart parking lot asking you to put your own carts away to help them keep costs down (which really piss me off, but that’s for another thread). Tell her Sam agrees with you.
I’ve only heard “buggy” used ironically, when I was younger and used to go grocery shopping with my buddies. It was one of many humorously ill-suited near-synonyms we would use to amuse ourselves.
In my area it’s as often a cart as it is a buggy. Some stores even cheat and call them bascarts.
What’s sad in my neighborhood is that they’re scattered about the sides of the roads blocks away from the stores that provide them. Homeless or carless shoppers is all I can figure. Eyesores, for sure.
I’m from Wisconsin, but have lived in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Maryland for extended periods of time, and never heard any term used except for ‘cart’.
Was always a cart until I moved here. Of all the weird words I’ve had to relearn, trolley has been the easiest by far. I catch myself saying “trolley” and think… Wow, that’s weird!
But you’d have to have me on my deathbed before you’d hear me call it a buggy. I hate that word, for no good reason at all.
