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?
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!
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?
GIVE 'EM HELL! 
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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
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
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).
I deserved that. :smack: I think of merchandise islands so isle sticks in my mind. Don’t ask.
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).