I returned to my car in a grocery store parking lot one time to find that someone had left their shopping cart BEHIND MY CAR. So … now I have to move their shopping cart to a corral otherwise I can’t back my car out of the space. I was so incensed, I left a long Blog post about it
http://yosean.blogspot.com/2006/09/anonymous-rude-shopping-cart-people.html
Great case, Gfactor! The author has some wit. 
I live near a golf course that’s located in an urban area, with major avenues right up against the fairways.
On the fences that separate them there are signs that read “Watch for Errant Golf Balls”. Uhhh…Ok, and how am I to do that exactly? Shall I scurry down the sidewalk while glancing nervously at the sky?
[QUOTE=Gfactor]
None of this is legal advice. Ever. You aren’t my client. I’m not your lawyer. Most of what I’m telling you is probably wrong. Give up.
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Out of curiousity how is this different on the bottom of your post? I ask since I have also used that on occasion as an Architect. Is simply stating that I am not giving professional advice enough to absolve me of giving that advise? Aren’t both the claim that we can’t be held liable for damages and the claim that you are not my lawyer, both attempts to avoid liability? Just curious as to what the difference is. Thanks!
[QUOTE=Broken Hoe]
The signs on the back of a fleet of gravel dump trucks around here really irritate me. They say “Not responsible for broken windshields”. Umm, if gravel falls off your truck and breaks my windshield, you certainly ARE responsible. Whether you are liable is for the damn lawyers to squabble over.
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Wouldn’t you like to follow one to origin and show him the disclaimer on your .45 after you’ve drilled a hole in the engine block with it.
For the first time I can recall, I saw a truck on the way home today with a sign that said, “Not responsible for damage from objects coming from road.” Interesting, because we all know if it came from their load that they’d be liable. How would one prove the difference?
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I was so incensed, I left a long Blog post about it
http://yosean.blogspot.com/2006/09/anonymous-rude-shopping-cart-people.html
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GIVE 'EM HELL! 
[QUOTE=Bootis]
This is the type of thing that makes it ridiculous for a store to claim putting away carts keep prices low-hiring some firm to do things for 3 times the cost of a potential small business lower bidder. I don’t know if it applies directly to this specific situation but it happens all the time in big companies I’ve worked for.
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Those probably are the small businesses, the manufacturer probably wants you to ship the carts back to Nebraska for service. Its not like there are hundreds of stores with hundreds of damaged carts each lined up for service. This is probably a 1-3 per week from any given store x a couple dozen stores large enough to use carts that don’t do their own maintenance.
[QUOTE=Magiver]
Wouldn’t you like to follow one to origin and show him the disclaimer on your .45 after you’ve drilled a hole in the engine block with it.
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A .45 isn’t going to do anything to an engine block, you know. You need an anti-materiel rifle for that sort of thing.
[QUOTE=doreen]
Why would the employees need to collect the carts from the corrals if people returned them? The way it works in the stores I go to with corrals is that I pick up the cart from the corral, I return it when I’m done shopping, and maybe they bring them in at the end of the night. I say maybe, because most of the stores have that “if you take the cart past here, the wheels won’t roll” line. They certainly don’t have employees rounding up carts constantly, as I used to see in the days before corrals. ( Of course, what really got the parking lot cleared of carts was the quarter deposit to get the cart out of the corral. You had to return the cart to the corral to get the quarter back)
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Because nobody remembers to grab a cart from a corral, in the one grocery store near me that actually has such a thing.
Also, this presumes that people actually use the corrals - an awful lot of people still leave their carts wherever they please. Less than at the places without corrals, yes, but the problem doesn’t go away.
What really irks me is the places where you really have no choice but to take the cart out to the car, and then walk the cart back to the building. You could leave the cart in front, and drive up to load the car, but then you’re stuck because of all the MoreImportantThanYou people who park their cars and wait there, while a passenger dashes inside “for just a minute”. Or drive around the others who couldn’t get all the way to the curb so are loading up with their cars’ front ends blocking traffic. Or you could be a dick and leave your cart in the middle of a parking space, which seems to be the most popular choice. The grocery stores don’t sent people out to retrieve carts terribly often, they no longer provide someone to help with loading at the curb, they don’t ever bother to chase away the MITY jerks… I used to enjoy grocery shopping but no more.
[QUOTE=Cyberhwk]
GIVE 'EM HELL!
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My mom always harped on me to be patient, especially with older people. OK, now that I’m pushing 50 I’ve decided I’ve earned the right to fling judgement when it needs flinging. I remember getting stuck behind an elderly couple who did exactly what the article described. They parked their cart and proceeded to read every GD thing on every can they were considering. When I finally got past them to the next isle I found myself in another line that was backed up because people were waiting to get into the isle I just left. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH. I’m thinking next time there’s going to be words of encouragement to moveth forward.
[QUOTE=Broken Hoe]
The signs on the back of a fleet of gravel dump trucks around here really irritate me. They say “Not responsible for broken windshields”. Umm, if gravel falls off your truck and breaks my windshield, you certainly ARE responsible. Whether you are liable is for the damn lawyers to squabble over.
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Actually, most of them around here say “Not responsible for objects coming from road”. Which is true, cuz they aren’t, and they just might trick you into thinking that their shit bouncing off the road and hitting you car isn’t their fault - which it clearly is.
-Joe
[QUOTE=Magiver]
They parked their cart and proceeded to read every GD thing on every can they were considering. When I finally got past them to the next isle I found myself in another line that was backed up because people were waiting to get into the isle I just left. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH.
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The hell is wrong with you people? Move the fucking cart!
“Isle”.
“Aisle”.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARgh!
Grammar Nazi, get back in the back of the back part of the back of my head!!!
-Joe
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF]
The hell is wrong with you people? Move the fucking cart!
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This is on the other half of the shopping cart rudeness that I mentioned in my Blog post - people so oblivious to other people that they park their cart and themselves so you can’t move past them.
It’s easy to say to just move the cart, but then don’t I appear kind of rude? I mean, here you are, minding your own business, trying to figure out if you want Coke Zero or Diet Coke, and some joker you don’t know comes up and starts shoving your cart around. Wouldn’t you think them kind of rude for doing that? For all you know, they’re taking things from your cart, or putting more stuff in it - why would this person be molesting your cart, anyhow?
See, I’d prefer not to have harsh words with someone in a grocery store just because I decided to shove carts around.
We’re not talking about a single incident one time 8 months ago, we’re talking about five to ten incidents every time I go to the grocery store. If I were to just start wantonly shoving carts aside, I might as well drive my own cart down the center of the aisle, ramming in to theirs to move them out of my way.
No …
My point here is that people should make a small attempt to be slightly more aware of their surroundings, and of how their actions might negatively affect other people. i.e., stop being so damned self-centered, you aren’t the only person on this planet (or in this grocery store).
[QUOTE=Merijeek]
“Isle”.
“Aisle”.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARgh!
Grammar Nazi, get back in the back of the back part of the back of my head!!!
-Joe
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I deserved that. :smack: I think of merchandise islands so isle sticks in my mind. Don’t ask.
[QUOTE=SeanArenas]
This is on the other half of the shopping cart rudeness that I mentioned in my Blog post - people so oblivious to other people that they park their cart and themselves so you can’t move past them.
It’s easy to say to just move the cart, but then don’t I appear kind of rude?
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I like to give people a little time to be polite. than I ask if I can squeeze through. Unless there is a line behind he person and then I just want to swing a sock full of frozen dough (don’t want to leave any marks).