So... went to the gym last weekend, found some stray carts in front of the gym where I usually park. This parking lot is absolutely massive, even if you filled up every single parking space you'd still have the other half of the plaza in front of the parking spaces that's just empty pavement. At the end of the plaza (it's just one gigantic rectangle essentially, with a horizontal row of businesses at the end) you have a strip of small businesses and then taking up almost half the strip on the right is Rural King, a massive farm supply store that's a chain in the midwest. Okay, so, their side of the lot is usually busy, the rest of the lot (probably 60% of the whole plaza) is spacious. There's usually less than 10 cars at a time on the entire side of the plaza. It's several hundred feet from Rural King to the gym, to give you an idea...
Someone who went to RK decided to park hundreds of feet away, and drag the carts all the way over there. Then they left 'em there. So I parked my shiny, newly painted car way out in the boonies to avoid the carts. I go in and do my cardio and stare at them, only to see them start to move as the wind picks up. Immediately left and dragged those fuckers back to RK myself to completely eliminate any chance of them rolling my way or into anyone else's car. I wish I took pictures of the lot to give you an idea of how big this place is and how asinine it is to park that far away when you know you'll get a cart and then drag the cart that far away and leave it there, especially in a lot that is not entirely flat (I've seen shopping carts in the grass on the other end of the plaza).
The sad thing is... that's the umpteenth time I've seen that. Too often I see people dragging carts to the other end of the plaza because they didn't park closer... Put your $&*%ing carts up and stop being lazy