Or. better yet, put all of your purchases in your car, smile brightly at the moron driver who has been creeping along right at your heels from the store entrance, and play the nice guy. Return your cart (if you have one, if not the one nearest your car) to the corral. Then return the next nearest one, then the next nearest one…See how long it takes for the heel-nipper to figure out he’s not getting your spot.
Oh, no, no, I was NOT ranting at you. I was ranting at the idiots who steal handicap spots from those of us who use them. Maternity spots are completely different. I was just ranting out of my own experience.
And I am with you on the cart corral thing. People, those wide areas with the blue stripes are there so somebody can get their chair out of their car, they are not a cart parking spot. I don’t have a chair, but I can imagine this must be a royal pain in the ass for those who do.
I think I found a winner tonight.
mr. e. and I stopped by Borders after our field trip to Skyline Chili. As I turned down a parking lane (I drive, so I don’t barf - motion sickness), I noticed a red pickup doing automobile gymnastics in the row. Now that I’ve already turned down the lane, I have no way around this idiot. She was trying to get into the closest spot - the one right after the handicapped spot (NOT the handicapped spot). She continued to pull in and pull out because the dipshit couldn’t park to save her life, holding up my car, the car behind me (who also didn’t see this genius when turning in), and several walkers.
Finally, she pulled in far enough for me to swing around and park - we parked not TEN SPACES down the row. When we got out of the car, she was still pulling out and pulling in, trying to get straight. We walked past her car, she was straightening the car and pulling in YET AGAIN.
When we opened the door to Borders to go in, guess where she was?
You got it. Pulling back in, then pulling out one more time to straighten the car. We’d PARKED THE CAR further away from the store, and gotten INTO the damn store before she’d even managed to pull her little red pickup into the spot.
Merry Christmas, indeed.
E.
Putting on your blinker does indeed give you claim on a spot. People who cut in and steal parking spots like this are jerks.
You know, it’s really strange, these people never seem to park on the side parts of the store, just the “main” front parking lot. At most of the stores I go to, there are always spots open on the side. Or, in the case of some of the malls, way in the back, still near a door, but farther away possibly from the store you want to get to.
I don’t personally care how far I have to WALK, what I care about is how far I have to walk IN THE COLD. So, if a parking spot is at the far end of the store (but still near an entrance), and therefore displeasing to most shoppers, I’ll grab it. As long as I can get INSIDE quickly…brrrrrrrrrrrrr 
While we’re on the subject of our fellow shoppers, this is sorta parking lot related, and I’ve said this before. When going into the store, GET IN THE @#%@#@ store already!!!
QUIT STANDING IN THE DOORWAY TALKING, WHILE WE’RE FREEZING BEHIND YOU!!!