Do you put the shopping carts back in the corral?

[King Postwhore]

That's because I don't want my cart to ding someone's car like it's happened to me 5 times in my life.

[bosk1]

In the continuing explanation of "it depends," here is another situation I encountered today:  Wife wanted me to meet her at a discount place where she had bought a number of items.  I came and loaded them into the car, and was then left with what to do with the empty cart.  This store does not have clerks to retrieve them.  It has no corrals.  It also had a sloped parking lot with no "safe" place to leave carts where they would not roll.  So I took it back inside the store.  The lack of staff to retrieve them and lack of corral outside would have led me to do that anyway.  But the lack of ANYWHERE "safe" to leave them outside the store doubly made that the best choice.  Again, it depends.  This situation is a far cry from the typical Costco run.

I'm calling BS on this one only because where you live is too flat to have any slopes...at all...anywhere...

  You must have forgotten where I live then.

[The Walrus]

You should've put it back there regardless of whether or not they had staff to do it, because you're already there and closer to the corral than the employee and by god that cart could have gone rogue between the time you left it there and whenever the employees get to it.

*goes back to stewing miserably in the corner* 

[lonestar]

In the continuing explanation of "it depends," here is another situation I encountered today:  Wife wanted me to meet her at a discount place where she had bought a number of items.  I came and loaded them into the car, and was then left with what to do with the empty cart.  This store does not have clerks to retrieve them.  It has no corrals.  It also had a sloped parking lot with no "safe" place to leave carts where they would not roll.  So I took it back inside the store.  The lack of staff to retrieve them and lack of corral outside would have led me to do that anyway.  But the lack of ANYWHERE "safe" to leave them outside the store doubly made that the best choice.  Again, it depends.  This situation is a far cry from the typical Costco run.

I'm calling BS on this one only because where you live is too flat to have any slopes...at all...anywhere...

  You must have forgotten where I live then.

Actually I don't know specifically what part you live, but damn is Sac flat man.

[bosk1]

In the continuing explanation of "it depends," here is another situation I encountered today:  Wife wanted me to meet her at a discount place where she had bought a number of items.  I came and loaded them into the car, and was then left with what to do with the empty cart.  This store does not have clerks to retrieve them.  It has no corrals.  It also had a sloped parking lot with no "safe" place to leave carts where they would not roll.  So I took it back inside the store.  The lack of staff to retrieve them and lack of corral outside would have led me to do that anyway.  But the lack of ANYWHERE "safe" to leave them outside the store doubly made that the best choice.  Again, it depends.  This situation is a far cry from the typical Costco run.

I'm calling BS on this one only because where you live is too flat to have any slopes...at all...anywhere...

  You must have forgotten where I live then.

Actually I don't know specifically what part you live, but damn is Sac flat man.

Yes, but I live in the foothills. 

[King Postwhore]

With his cornpipe, rocking chair and a shotgun.  AMIRITE?

[bosk1]

No pipe.  But otherwise...let's just say you didn't miss the mark by much. 

NOW SQUEAL LIKE A PIG!

[King Postwhore]

 

king = Ned Beatty.   

[Stadler]

Hi Tim.  Look at how far away the corral is.  Any kids outside to take my carriage? Nope.



So I walked my cart over and put it in the corral because of management's incompetence to staff correctly.  So I wanted to do the right thing.



IT'S YOUR FAULT TIM THAT CUSTOMERS HAVE TO DO THIS!!

it's like the flight attendant always says: "And keep in mind, your nearest exit corral may be behind you."

Haha.

[King Postwhore]

Busy day at the grocery!

[lonestar]

No pipe.  But otherwise...let's just say you didn't miss the mark by much. 

NOW SQUEAL LIKE A PIG!

Sacramento is the Midwest of California.

[The Walrus]

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

[sylvan]

I was parking at the grocery store the other day, turned down a row to pull into a spot, and I see a rolling cart. It clearly came from the spot I was parking in, left by the asshole that just drove away. Luckily I had enough time to get out, run over (recovering from hip surgery), and save the car 70 ft. away... Took a pic of the cart, in motion, middle of the drive, and sent it to a friend I mentioned this discussion to. His response, "Some people just wanna watch the world burn..."

[bosk1]

  Why are there shopping carts at the gym?

[The Walrus]

  Why are there shopping carts at the gym?

I thought I explained that, but I'll try again...

The plaza is one freaking massive parking lot. At the end of the lot is a horizontal line (strip) of buildings. On the left half are a bunch of small businesses - beauty supply store, restaurant, small churches, the 24/7 gym - and on the right is one massive store, Rural King, that shares one of its walls with the business directly next store. RK's side of the lot/plaza is almost half of the plaza, they have a couple corrals right there for easy storing. It takes several hundred feet of walking to get from RK to where these carts were, directly in front of the gym. Someone brought the carts from the intended store all the way out into the boonies. Which means an employee would have to take time to walk all over the plaza (I've seen an employee do this while I was in the gym, actually, and it took him around 10 minutes to go gather up one cart at the completely opposite end of the plaza, in the grass, with some others). This happens all the time... because people don't put things away when they're done using them.

EDIT: By god, I managed to find an actual photo of the very lot I'm talking about. Looks like it's years old but the layout (and sparse number of vehicles) is exactly the same. There's a whole lot of real estate on the left that isn't in the photo.

[King Postwhore]

  Why are there shopping carts at the gym?

To pick up chicks of course.

[bosk1]

So the gym shares a parking lot with these stores that have shopping carts?  (I don't know what "RK" is, so that's part of the confusion).  I guess that makes more sense now then.

[The Walrus]

So the gym shares a parking lot with these stores that have shopping carts?  (I don't know what "RK" is, so that's part of the confusion).  I guess that makes more sense now then.

Sigh... it's explained right there in the first post, dude. But yes, it does. And much to my amazement, there's no shortage of people who park way on the other end in front of the other stores, then drag carts from RK all the way over there and just leave them there (the lot dips greatly on that other side, as well, and in winter it also becomes an ice rink, so)

[Samsara]

*wags finger*

You boys need to settle down. 


Joking, and no offense intended. Just trying to diffuse tension.

[The Walrus]

Only the Sword of a Thousand Truths is sharp enough to cut this tension. And one of those truths is that SHOPPING CARTS GO IN THE CORRAL. 

[TAC]

Ok zombie.

[The Walrus]

Ok zombie.

I don't know what this means. 

[pg1067]

So the gym shares a parking lot with these stores that have shopping carts?  (I don't know what "RK" is, so that's part of the confusion).  I guess that makes more sense now then.

Apparently, "Rural King" is some sort of "everything under one roof" store.  It's "America's Farm and Home Store" and seems to be a combination Home Depot/sporting goods/hunting/toy/grocery/clothing store, primarily in Florida and the Great Lakes states.

Kattelox, I'm thinking maybe you need to carry a Tensator barrier in your car or something.

[TAC]

Ok zombie.

I don't know what this means. 

[The Walrus]

Kattelox, I'm thinking maybe you need to carry a Tensator barrier in your car or something.

No! It's not because the store tells you to, but because it's common decency! You should do it out of respect for those around you and their vehicles and not leaving the store's property all over the got dang place!

[Samsara]

For the record, all carts go back in the corral...CORRECTLY. If you've ever worked parking lot duty in retail, you know the huge sigh you make when you see all the dumbasses with the carts backwards, sideways, etc., in the f'in corral. Bunch of degenerates. 

[Zook]

No! It's not because the store tells you to, but because it's common decency! You should do it out of respect for those around you and their vehicles and not leaving the store's property all over the got dang place!

What is your opinion on courtesy flushing? I personally don't do it, and I'll explain why. You see, I have no intentions of stinking up the bathroom, but such is life. I also don't want to give the person who may be waiting the wrong idea. "The toilet flushed! They're coming out!" The last thing I want is someone getting impatient because the toilet flushed and they start banging on the door. I mean, if I have the shits, and I've courtesy flushed right when someone is in earshot, I can't exactly say "just a minute", and I definitely don't want to say, "I have the shits, I'll be in here a while!"

[Podaar]

I forgot to mention this, but the Sunday before last, I witnessed a Costco employee roving the parking lot, pulling carts off of curbs and putting them in a corral. I started laughing out loud and Mrs. P asked me what was so funny. I told her about this thread and some posters attitude about putting carts in the corral. In a very Hef like manner, she lowered her eyebrows and said, "You I need to stop spending time around people who intellectualize being assholes." 

[King Postwhore]

 

Oh and this past Sunday,




ARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!

[Cool Chris]

If you've ever worked parking lot duty in retail, you know the huge sigh you make when you see all the dumbasses with the carts backwards, sideways, etc., in the f'in corral. Bunch of degenerates. 

What is "Parking lot duty?" Wouldn't retrieving carts not returned to the corral or arranging them properly while in the corral be part of the job and thus not worthy of a huge sigh? If all the carts were properly returned, would a store even need someone on that duty? I get that it makes it a little harder, but it's not like being a hotel housekeeper or pool cleaner and having Keith Moon stay at your establishment.

[TAC]

If all the carts were properly returned, would a store even need someone on that duty?

BINGO!!!!!

The entire reason they're there.

[Dublagent66]

Oh and this past Sunday,




ARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!

I could make a career out of producing Darwin awards.  Only problem is, there would never be enough to go around. 

[King Postwhore]

If all the carts were properly returned, would a store even need someone on that duty?

BINGO!!!!!

The entire reason they're there.

Except you managers mishandle hours cutting these kids leaving hour gaps with anyone out there.   I bet the carts were made to save you jacjasses money.

[The Walrus]

What is your opinion on courtesy flushing? I personally don't do it, and I'll explain why. You see, I have no intentions of stinking up the bathroom, but such is life. I also don't want to give the person who may be waiting the wrong idea. "The toilet flushed! They're coming out!" The last thing I want is someone getting impatient because the toilet flushed and they start banging on the door. I mean, if I have the shits, and I've courtesy flushed right when someone is in earshot, I can't exactly say "just a minute", and I definitely don't want to say, "I have the shits, I'll be in here a while!"

This is a shitty question.

Seriously, though: I don't think this is a comparable situation. I also don't shit in public as long as I can help it. 

[The Walrus]

I forgot to mention this, but the Sunday before last, I witnessed a Costco employee roving the parking lot, pulling carts off of curbs and putting them in a corral. I started laughing out loud and Mrs. P asked me what was so funny. I told her about this thread and some posters attitude about putting carts in the corral. In a very Hef like manner, she lowered her eyebrows and said, "You I need to stop spending time around people who intellectualize being assholes."