Shopping Carts

The real ones, not online. If you know where this is going, you can just skip this post. I’m about to rant.

Things that frustrate me about people who can’t return their carts to the cart corral or the store:

1. The fact that these people even exist. Wow, that sounds harsh, but where do these people get off thinking that they are exempt from social niceties?
2. The people that are parked NEXT to a cart corral, and can’t bother to put the cart in the corral. They shove it in front of their car, which inevitably means that it will end up at the intersection of four cars. Never with one wheel in each quadrant, I might add, so it’s not like it’s even a cool design feature.
3. What does it take to unload the cart into your car, and then bring the cart back to where it belongs? A few extra minutes of exercise? I know it takes effort, but I assure you, you’ll feel good about yourself. And if everyone did this, we wouldn’t have to worry about carts running into our vehicles in the parking lot.

A few caveats here:

1. I am in Arizona, so we’re not dealing with inclement weather, even when it’s 118 degrees outside, it’s not a shock. It was probably 117 degrees when we got to the store in the first place.
2. If you have small children, I don’t know what the answer is, honestly. I believe that the children come first, no question. What I would probably do is park next to a cart corral so that when I need to find a home for it, it’s right there, and I don’t have any safety issues with the children.

I could probably go on and on, but I won’t. I don’t want to alienate my three readers.