I bring you this illustration with images that I’ve stolen from the Internet to show you why I don’t like to go to the grocery store.
During daylight hours, I usually turn into the first lane as I enter the parking lot. This is not a particularly popular lane for parking, as most people park closer to the main entrance.
Every parking lot lane is one way. There are always drivers who go the wrong way on this lane because it’s the lane closest to the exit. Which means when I’m pulling in or backing out, I have to watch for wrong-way vehicles as well as put up with hateful glares and rude gestures from IMPROPERLY EXITING drivers as if I AM IN THE WRONG for blocking their getaway route.
Then there are the people who treat parking spaces as if they are cart return locations. Today was the most amazing. The woman unloading her cart into the car next to mine walked across the lane to put her cart IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARKING SPACE. As you can see, she could have walked about the same distance across the MAIN lane to return her cart to the line of carts in front of the store.
Because neither she nor I could leave anyway (thanks to the line of cars going the wrong way), after I returned my cart to the front of the store, I walked to her abandoned cart and did the same with it. She pretended to be fumbling through the contents of her purse rather than meet my eyes.
you should have rammed the cart right into her car at top speed, that would have taught her a valuable lesson
She probably would have run over me. And I hate it when that happens.
I thought I’d seen some crack parking lots — hello,
Legacy Village in Beachwood, Ohio! — but this is
insanity.
I thought they would actually want people to come
and shop there. Apparently not.
The parking lot’s not so bad. It’s HUGE with plenty of cart corrals. It’s the lazy people who can’t be bothered to walk a few feet to put away carts or who refuse to adhere to basic driving principles that make the experience so unpleasant. Morons.
I think the most annoying feeling on earth is people “in the wrong”, making out that you – poor innocent person – are!
Is it becuase they feel guilty? Or just because they’re stupid? Either way, I understand “trolley range” very well!
(Love the diagram! Are you sure you weren’t a schoolteacher in another life? *grin*)
Thanks–and I was a schoolteacher in THIS life. Explains so much, doesn’t it?
Ah yes!!
Actually now I think about it more fully, I’m sure you have mentioned it before . . .
That is one thing that infuriates me to no end when people leave their carts. Is is it really so taxing to put your cart in a buggy-corral?? This is one of the many reasons why I quit shopping at my local Wal-marts. They are the worst. I now drive 30 minutes to Kroger but sometimes they are just as bad. I even go so far as to park in the last space farthest away from the store in hopes that this will deter someone from leaving their cart right next to my truck. It works, coincidentally probably, about 75% of the time.
I just don’t get it. Is it because someone is “paid” to collect carts? Or is it just rudeness and laziness?
Someone once told me she doesn’t want to empty her cart and put her son in his car seat, leaving him while she rolls the cart back. Here’s a thought. Put your stuff in your car, take the cart back, then CARRY OR WALK YOUR SON TO THE CAR.
You give and you give and you give.
No. I was just brought up understanding basic courtesy and personal responsibility.