When shopping carts attack!!!
#16
Lexus Test Driver
I am right beside Super Target, and I can not tell how many times I had already run out to catch Carts that were blowing away by the wind....I hate people like that.
That one time I saw this lady was driving a New Hyundai Sonata (White) probably 1-2 years old. She left the cart beside her door, and was about to reverse and go. I thought "common lady, you can't leave like that" She did it anyway. Suddenly a wind gust, guess what. "Bam" it hit her door....I wanted to laugh, but felt bad at the same time
At the least, she walked out and put it in the cart holder, which was like 7-8 ft away. She learned her lesson, I hope.
That one time I saw this lady was driving a New Hyundai Sonata (White) probably 1-2 years old. She left the cart beside her door, and was about to reverse and go. I thought "common lady, you can't leave like that" She did it anyway. Suddenly a wind gust, guess what. "Bam" it hit her door....I wanted to laugh, but felt bad at the same time
At the least, she walked out and put it in the cart holder, which was like 7-8 ft away. She learned her lesson, I hope.
#18
The pursuit of F
Unless of course the person is on a wheelchair in which case he/she wouldn't be using the store shopping cart in the first place or perhaps has a helper (in which case the helper should put the cart away???)
Sorry, no offense to any disabled people, but I fail to understand how the disabled person (alone or with helper) can perform A to Y (drive, shop, etc), but not Z (put cart away).
#19
Lexus Test Driver
Agree, but if the store employee was not around, how did the disabled person load the vehicle? On this note, why wouldn't a disabled person be able to bring the cart over in the designated spot? Didn't he/she drive from his/her house, got out of the car, picked up a cart, walked through all the aisles in the store...
Unless of course the person is on a wheelchair in which case he/she wouldn't be using the store shopping cart in the first place or perhaps has a helper (in which case the helper should put the cart away???)
Sorry, no offense to any disabled people, but I fail to understand how the disabled person (alone or with helper) can perform A to Y (drive, shop, etc), but not Z (put cart away).
Unless of course the person is on a wheelchair in which case he/she wouldn't be using the store shopping cart in the first place or perhaps has a helper (in which case the helper should put the cart away???)
Sorry, no offense to any disabled people, but I fail to understand how the disabled person (alone or with helper) can perform A to Y (drive, shop, etc), but not Z (put cart away).
#23
Lexus Fanatic
Though the law certainly meant well at the time (and Congress obviously passed it with good intentions), I partially blame the ADA (Americans with Disabilites Act) for the mess we have with carts today at supermarkets. Back before the law was passed, it was very difficult to take carts away from the supermarket front end into the parking-lot because the front end was surrounded by a metal-post fence that had openings in it too narrow to push a cart through (but still wide enough to let most non-disabled customers through). The carts basically stayed inside he fence, and customers went out to their cars and simply pulled up (where we would be waiting for them). The ADA, though, when it was passed, did not allow that kind of design any more, and said that there had to be openings wide enough for wheel chairs and other devices to easily get through.....which, of course, was a good intention. But, apparently, nobody at the time thought of what would happen when everybody and their brother could suddenly wheel their own carts right through the big openings (or with no fence-posts at all) right out into the parking lot. The result gave us the mess we have today.
Last edited by mmarshall; 06-04-14 at 06:20 PM.