People are so damn lazy (parking lot etiquette)

[Exterous]

I'm guilty of leaving a cart behind sometimes. Usually if it's in summer and raining. I really don't want to spend more time being poured on than I have to. They pay people to go get all the carts.

Regardless of your previous posts I have now concluded that you are a horrible human being

 

[Paladin3]

I used to shop a Walmart where the greeter would hand you a raffle ticket if you returned a cart to the store, and once a week someone won a $20 gift card. It was a win-win for everyone.

 

[CZroe]

I assumed they parked that way so other cars didn't swing the door into them. Solution: knee their door so they have the same dent they were trying to avoid.

That's why I said "and." It almost never has to do with limited parking. It's even more important not to waste a space then and harder to do or get away with that.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I used to shop a Walmart where the greeter would hand you a raffle ticket if you returned a cart to the store, and once a week someone won a $20 gift card. It was a win-win for everyone.

But this economy....

 

[LTC8K6]

Maybe low mental health care availability in the US is why Fox News exists.

If I lived in the US and had US gun laws, it would be very hard to resist fucking up peoples cars on a regular basis. Parked like a dick? A .22 bullet will take care of these tires....

You would quickly be in jail for that in the US, most lots have cameras, and not here posting silly stuff...

 

[LTC8K6]

Not having to pay for a service to use it = free. Sure it comes from taxes which we pay, but we have to pay taxes no matter what. If they started to charge for health care, those taxes would not go away. In America you guys pay taxes but still have to pay for healthcare. I don't know about you, but I could not afford to pay half a million dollars or more if I got diagnosed with cancer or needed some serious surgery.

We are now going to pay a tax for healthcare, apparently... :biggrin:

 

[LTC8K6]

Hey shorty dickens, your health care costs twice as much because insurance agencies take half the money.

In canada we deal with our doctor only, in america you deal with your insurance agent is between you and your doctor.

Anyone who thinks that's a good system is a fucking idiot. Looking at you shorty dicken.

Good, then you folks can stop coming to the US to use our medical system...

Since we are now taxed for it, and you Canucks haven't paid any tax... :biggrin:

 

[bignateyk]

If I see someone leaving their cart in the parking lot I walk over and get it and take it to the return for them so they feel like a lazy asshole.

 

[Aikouka]

I will never forget what I saw one day. The horrid nature of it has forever been singed into my mind. I was at Walmart* and I was putting my items into my trunk while across the aisle was a woman loading up her SUV. I watched her take her shopping cart** and place it to the right of her vehicle. My jaw nearly touched the ground. You may wonder why I was so taken aback by her actions, but I think you would be too if you saw that she was parked right beside the cart return... except it was to the left of her vehicle. Yes, she literally would have made the same amount of effort to actually put the cart back, but she actively chose not to do so.

*Note: Went to Walmart? I expect someone to post a "there's your problem" meme.
**Note the use of "shopping cart" (or simply "cart") not buggy, you weird southerners!

Although, I felt a little bad one day. I know I had a cart, but as I was driving away, I couldn't remember for the life of me whether I put the cart away or not. I was tempted to drive back and check, but I didn't.

Uhh, I think you have it backwards. People don't do that because there aren't enough spaces. They do that so people won't park close to them and they can swing their doors as wide as they want. That's why people in this thread revel in reducing their clearance by squeezing in anyway. It's frustrating enough when some jerk wastes two good close spaces like that and is too lazy to park farther, but it's a million times worse when there is no other parking when there would be if that jerk hadn't wasted one.

Actually, I bet the people in the photos didn't even realize that they took up more than one spot, and when they got out of their vehicle, I doubt that they cared much to fix it.

If I see someone leaving their cart in the parking lot I walk over and get it and take it to the return for them so they feel like a lazy asshole.

I usually pick them up if they're along the way when I'm walking into a store, and sometimes I'll be wheeling around about 4-5 carts stacked together. I've had a few people think that I'm actually a store employee until I put the carts in the cart return and walk away.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Seriously? The cart return is three spaces over...

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

 

[paperfist]

I always wondered how he planned to bury them alive after they were torn to pieces. I guess he had an angle.

30,000 of 'em.

 

[foghorn67]

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

Damn, you're stupid.

 

[NFS4]

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

Please don't breed.

 

[NFS4]

If I see someone leaving their cart in the parking lot I walk over and get it and take it to the return for them so they feel like a lazy asshole.

I did that once at Target. Lady had parked her cart right in front of my bumper as I was sitting in my car. I got out of the car, and pushed it to the car return (which was one space over) and glared at her the whole way.

She must have felt about 6" tall at that point.

 

[CZroe]

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

Cause and effect. Do you spit your gum on the ground because someone else is going to step on it? You're the reason they aren't simply paid to get them from the cart corrals and why they occupy parking spaces and roll around damaging vehicles in the mean time. You're also the reason they had to hire someone else inside to do the labor the cart collector could have done (stocking, checkout, etc). You're the reason we all had to pay more for our groceries, wait longer in line, pay for the dent and scratch repair, and spend multiple times more time/effort walking further than you would have spent delivering your cart.

Open your eyes. I bet you not only spit your gum on the ground, you complain when you step in someone else's.

 

[Puppies04]

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

I take it you live somewhere where there is never any wind to blow the cart into some poor guys car because if you don't you are a douche. In fact I just decided you are probably a douche either way.

 

[ShawnD1]

You would quickly be in jail for that in the US, most lots have cameras, and not here posting silly stuff...

Keep the .22 in your jacket pocket and shoot through your jacket. Surely you have at least 1 jacket that you don't care about shooting.

 

[slag]

I like Aldi's system, where it takes a quarter to get a cart. People that lazy are usually greedy too, and they won't let 25¢ go that easily.

I always throw the cart in the back of the truck and take off. I paid 25 cents for that cart, it was a great deal. I have about 12 of them in my back yard right now, and they work great for holding engine parts while I pressure wash them.

*Actually, I don't have any of them, but that's a really good idea...*

 

[paperfist]

they pay people to gather up the carts, theres no reason to waste your own time once youre done with it

Yup sadly those people aren't quite that quick. I saw some guy at Home Depot once leave his cart in the middle of the parking lot. It didn't quite come to a complete stop as he left it there and a nice little gust of wind got it going a little faster. And then faster still till it was going a good 5 MPH where it came to rest smashed up against the side of a car.

Yesterday I saw a young girl (17ish) walk into Walmart were she spit on the ground. I guess degenerates disease has spread from the parking lot to indoors now.

 

[Brovane]

Usually when I go to to Costco I park in a certain aisle that is right near the cart return. It usually is far enough away that there is parking spots. I then grab a cart out of the cart return and take it into the store and do my shopping and then deposit it back into the cart return. I hate the stores that don't provide easily accessible cart returns.

 

[LTC8K6]

Keep the .22 in your jacket pocket and shoot through your jacket. Surely you have at least 1 jacket that you don't care about shooting.

You forgot the suppressor. Short barrels and simple blowback actions make for rather loud guns.

I would never shoot through any jacket, though.

Plus, concealing the weapon without a permit is just more jail time...

 

[Anubis]

you are thinking about it all wrong. with me parking next to you the chance someone opens their door into you is cut by 50% because im not gonna do it.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Good, then you folks can stop coming to the US to use our medical system...

Since we are now taxed for it, and you Canucks haven't paid any tax... :biggrin:

You might find a case or two of canadians going south but it's usually some super rich guy. He's goes south because he can jump line, all you yankees get put on the side burner till rich boy gets hes operation. Money is king down there.

I'll tell you what is VERY common though, millions of Americans going to third world countries to get medical procedures at cut rate prices. It's called medical tourism.

 

[Howard]

Almost every retail chain has tried it at one time or another and most abandon it fairly quickly. A little shitbox like Aldi can get away with it because they don't have a true competitor in that narrow market segment. For full-scale retail stores that have competitors that little thing is enough to drive customers away.

Almost every store up here has them.

 

[NickelTitanium]

If it bothers you so much then be part of the solution and push the carts back to the store. There are much more important things to worry your pretty head about.