We will try another hypothetical. Imagine that you are walking out of WalMart. Imagine that you have a shopping cart. Imagine that you take all the stuff out of your cart.
Do you return the shopping cart to the proper location or do you leave it off to the side?
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YES!
I do my best to return it.
return the shopping cart definitely!
I usually do. I hate it when I walk out to the parking lot and there’s a shopping cart 2 inches from my car. It’s one of my pet peeve…so damn annoyed by those that leave their shopping cart all over the damn parking lot…
I personally leave it right in the middle of the lot so the next Ithacan scumbag with a fucking Volvo who’s talking on his cell phone to some fuckass senator about how deforestation makes him impotent rams into it, so it splinters into pieces and metal is lodged in HIS POINTLESS FUCKING ITHACAN BRAIN.
Or so I can hope.
Right through the windshield, man.
I return it
leave it off to the side, but where it’s not in the way.
well.. unless it’s raining… lol
Definitely leave it on the side. I am too fat to walk it back.
i usually try to return it. but if the designated spot is too far, or if it’s too crowded, or some other weird circumstance… i just put it out of the way somewhere.
Wow, when I was typing my first comment, I was number 3, then I ended up as number 10…..
i return it to the little cart holder things.. and i usually return all the ones around me, too.. just because it bothers me when they’re spread out everywhere
I always put it back. Here I am, in the minority again. It’s the only nice thing I do anymore, really.
i return it to the place it belongs.
my sister gets annoyed of me when i have to go out of my way to do it tho… but.. i have to do it! Texas weather sux and i feel sry for the people who have to pick up the cart…
in stores.. its cool… so i just leave it there for them to pick up.. but outside.. in texas weather? ew
<3 Catrina
I may leave the cart, but I make sure I put the stuff inside back where it came from.
put it back, or have my husband return it. Whichever.
I always return the buggy to the buggy holding pen. LOL LOL Yep I always do.
cart things in the parking lot
I ride on it through the parking lot, and put it back, gloriously!
RETURN IT TO ITS PROPER PLACE!!![yes, I was yelling!]
Take it back.
Depends if I have kids in the car. I won’t leave them in the car alone, so I put the cart out of the way on the side. If I’m alone I walk it to the cart corral.
I return it.
I return it.
put it back
cart corral baby
(i cant spell.)
I always return the cart. Why? I don’t know. I think it’s because I know that if I were the cart picker upper, I think about how badly it would rot to have to go around the entire parking lot getting the stray carts. Now in stores I’ll drop it wherever.
I always bring it back.
return it. always do.
I absolutely, without a doubt LEAVE it….and I even make sure that I am blocking the parking space next to me with it, too.sometimes I even give it a gentle push…..in the direction of the Lexus parked nearby.. LMBO! I’m just joking. I used to ALWAYS leave it, but larsthunder has a huge peeve with this, so I remember that when I shop now and return it if it isn’t to cold outside. Regardless…i always tuck it somewhere out of the way where it won’t interfere with the parking of others or hit another car.
I put it in the cart corral!
always put it back. its an inconvenience to others (workers, other drivers on a windy day) if its left were it shouldnt be.
90% of the time I return it to the cart holder, but sometimes I leave it.
Thanks for the advice. You know that’s really what I’ve been doing and it seems to be working with him. I keep to myself, don’t talk to him unless I have to and I do everything he says. I’ve realized I can’t try to be his equal and as long is I brown nose, then I do fine.. it’s sad actually.. but like I said, when I leave there.. I leave it all there!
thanks again.
I return it.
returning shopping carts is the cool thing to do.
even if its raining.
unless you’re with someone else… then they can return it.
If there is a “Cart Corral” relatively close I return it, I never just let it roll away.
I always return the cart. It irritates me when people don’t actually. I somehow doubt that most people who comment will admit to leaving the cart. Just watch. And I know someone must be lying, seeing how many carts I always find sitting in the middle of ideal parking spots or in the middle of aisles.
oh I take it back. of make Ben do it!
always… I’d feel bad if it hit someone’s car because I was too lazy to walk it 20 metres
I’d return it, though there must be some drive to make me want to assume the best of myself, especially when telling other people what I’d do in a situation.
proper location everytime
Always put it back (at least in one of those shopping cart spots). I hate having to move other people’s, so why make them move my own?
leave it to the side, not blocking traffic or parking. It gives employees the chance to get out of the store to go collect the carts, I used to love going on a “cart run” Gets me out of the store for a few minutes! I’d happily walk a block to grab a stray cart, and hey its not like the manager would mind me doing this either. Its a win-win in my book.
I will probably leave it off to the side if someone isn’t with me because I have both the kids with me and I don’t want to leave them alone in the car even for just a second. If my hubby is there with me one of us will take it back
Return it for sure! I think we all judge the jerk who doesn’t put the cart back and mentally shake our fist in frustration at them. No one wants to be that person.
I always put it back where it goes…it’s a lot easier to park when there aren’t stray carts running about…
return it back to the spots they have for carts. some people just leave them in parking spots..maybe even good ones! and so you can’t park there
return it, unless it is raining.
I always return it to the cart corral. (as they’re called here in the west.)
I don’t shop at Walmart, so I’m going to adapt this scenario to my actual life.
I buy all of my groceries at a food cooperative (it is enormous by cooperative standards and is the size of a regular chain supermarket – I say this for context so as not to be confused with smaller storefront-sized co-ops). It is de rigeur that one returns her cart to the inside of the store. You can always tell the people who aren’t regulars by the fact they leave their carts in the parking lot.
Why are you putting this into the hypothetical??? I put it back, so as to not get sued for car(t) damage.
i think i probably used to leave it in a spot where it wasn’t in a parking spot but out there, you know; until my husband years ago informed me that i was being thoughtless and shamed me into returning it where it’s supposed to go.
Return it.
Off to the side. They pay people good money to return those carts.
And if I returned it myself, what would the illegal immigrants do for work?
Heh. That was awful.
i can honestly say, i always return it. and i do that just because i am not a lazy american!
returned it.
proper location. it might stray off and hit another car if u don’t!
Always return it. I find it really annopying when people just leave there carts all around. Then they end up hitting cars whrn the wind moves them.
~G~
of course i return it. i think it’s completely selfish nd lazy not to.
Return, dur. Those things are like… 100 bucks each.
i roll it up to the side walk away from the cars.
!~nicole~!
I’ve always returned them until one day….see my post on 2/13/2006.
Usually, though if the weather is really bad I sometimes just try to leave it out of the way. Did you know that people in CA hardly ever take shopping carts back where they belong? I was amazed when we moved to IN to see how many people put the carts back. And that was in 1965. Maybe CA people have improved since then, but I doubt it.
I always return it to the cart holder.. I try to be a responsibe adult…
I place it in the return cart storage area. I hate having those thing rolling loose around the parking lot blowing into or blocking cars.
I take it back. And sometimes I’ll take other shopping carts back too, for the lazy people who refuse the walk the extra few yards to put theirs back.
i return it b/c i wouldn’t want my car to be hit by someone elses
Yeah, I return the shopping cart to the proper location, like my dad. =)
God bless you today!
I might return it, if I was in an exceptionally good mood, because it’s the right thing to do.
I highly doubt it though.
No. I push it out the doors. Push it past all the cars. Get in it. And let it fly. And then when it crashes on the curb at the end of the parking lot, I get out. And walk casually to my car.
i always take it to where it belongs..
its how i was taught and all.. =]
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I work at Food Lion (a grocery store) as a bagger. The bagger is in charge of alot of things — collecting the carts on the lot being one of them.
Before I got this job, I didn’t care where I put the cart; but after having this job and having the responsibility of collecting these carts… The places people put them, uuuuughhhh… It is SOOO hard on me when they need me inside, but I have to stay outside and run all over because people just push their carts to the side without returning them to their proper location.
Since I have experienced this, I return the cart EVERY time.
Yeah, and everyone else needs to do the same. It’s really hard on those that have to collect the carts…
I return it whether I’m shopping at Wal-Mart or any other place. Too bad this question even has to be asked nowadays.
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greeter
Depends on several things cause I have done both. Depends if I have my youngest child with me and nobody else to sit with him in the van. It depends on the weather. It depends how far the cart corral is! lol BUT, there are times I take a cart back in the store with me when I go….so I don’t feel so bad if I leave it out there later! lol
Return it! ALWAYS return it!
I always return it.
return it
Put it in its proper place.
It’s only polite!
Return it to the proper spot but I normally don’t at other stores.
At wal*mart those spaces devoted to carts are everywhere, it would be sheer laziness not to – and – there simply is no room in the parking lot to leave it off to the side, that place is crowded from when it opens to when it closes.
i dont know..i have down both before. Depends how bad i want to leave!
i must say that i am lazy…lol…so it depends how far from my car the place to put them is….so i actually try and get a space not far from one so i can put it back if not i do leave it beside my car…lol….yea im lazy.
I have done both, but I dont leave it where its in the way of someones car or anything. I return them also. Sometimes I offer it to someone, or they volunteer to take it. Its hard to get a shopping cart at our walmarts in Texas.
I either put it in a cart corral or take it back up to the store, whichever is closest!
Although I have been tempted to leave it (and I’m sure I have once or twice), I resist the temptation and take it back. I actually park next to (or as close as I can get to) cart returns these days. With five kids it’s more important for packing and unpacking purposes, than it is to be close to the store (which is virtually impossible at Walmart anyway).
I return it… but I’m a dork.
put it in one of those places for carts that are outside.
i definitely leave it
im an inconsiderate teenager.
obviously i leave it
i definitely leave it
im an inconsiderate teenager.
obviously i leave it
To the side :
Proper location
always proper location
I return it.
There was actually one time I found a cart from an Albertson that was almost a quarter of a mile away from the entrance (it was in the alley behind the Albertson), and I brought it back, told the cart clerk where it was, and they seemed really uninterested. Now if there is an Albertson’s cart that far away from the entrance, I won’t bring it back.
But if I ever use a cart and take it to my car (well, I don’t drive, but if I’m with my parents*), I always return it to the proper location.
~Watts
i would NEVER shop at WalMart. but i always return my cart to the designated spot > my car is new and i would HATE for something to hit it, so why would i risk someone else’s car?
i’ll move it to the cart corrale as we call them in this area…..or the are where i work anyway…..leaving it just off to the side drives me nuts…..
I always return the cart to the little card corral thing.
take it to a proper location because i like racing on shopping carts…lol
all of your posts are stupid and ridiculous.
I always put it in one of the cart holding things in the parking lot (thats basicly returning it)
put it back where it belongs. i hate it when people leave ‘em wherever — but hey, what comes around and goes around and i’ll laugh when a cart goes flying smack into their car door.
Nope I just move it out the side. They have workers to move the damm carts around.
why not take it back? its usually only like two feet away anyway.
i put it in one of those cart container things that they randomly place around the lot, unless im close enough to walk it up to the front of the store.
i put it in the coralle, i HATE it when people leave them laying around for me to back into…
Most of the time, I put it back to one of the places where you are supposed to put the carts for employees to pick up.
But sometimes these things are too bloody far away. I leave it out in the curve. Come on, now; everyone has done it at least once.
i put it where it goes. also, nearby stray carts join the pack.
Depending on how far away the proper location is, I would return the cart as long as the location was a short distance away
Depends on how far I am from the cart holder…
return it to the proper place.
-laura-
I put it in the cart corral unless there are none around, then I find a safe place (probably an island or something) where it won’t roll off and hit a car
I always return the cart…only because once I saw the damage it actually does to a car…and no…I didn’t do it!!1
i push it towards the general area…
put it in the cart corral!
I return it. But if i’m in a supper hurry I leave it somewhere so that it doesn’t become a hazzard.
I put it in the rack or have one of the kids do so. I do not understand why people are so lazy that they have to take up parking spaces with thier used carts.
If it’s a reasonable distance? I return it to the designated place. Other wise? I prop the front wheels on the nearest curb so that it won’t roll into someone’s car. (It never hits the desired target when you leave them in the middle of the lane. Door dinging the crap out of some asshole’s SUV who can’t park his vehicle inside the lines is always much more satisfying anyway. Especially as you’re getting in your car to leave and he’s just walking up to his.
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i always do. i hate it when people don’t. especially when they block parking spaces.
jerks.
return it
I always return it. Always. It pisses me off to no end when I see carts sitting around.
There is no Walmart.
Excellent question. It depends. If the next cart depository is close by then yes. But if I’m at the Wal-mart in New Albany, Mississippi and there are only about 3 depositories in the whole square mile of parking lot so the New Albanians will have more space to park their “dulees” (that is a pickup truck that inexplicably has four wheels on the back instead of two), then no. I leave it where it is.
I’m one of the people who always feels like I have to put the cart in the right place, or at least pass it off to a shopper about to enter the store. Sometimes I may even put away other carts nearby. It just annoys me when there are a bunch of lose carts all over the parking lot.
When I shop at wal-mart I feel like I smoked crack.
I dont even go with a list, I just go and buy JUNK.
When im done I feel dirty and shove the cart away in disgust as I get into a car in shame.
Everywhere else, I put my gum wrapper, cigarette wrapper, trash, carts, etc in the right place.
Wal-mart sucks the life out of you.
always take it back
i despise it when people do that. they have those little places to put your shopping carts everywhere!! it’s not that far of a walk…
You return it
Most of the time I return it to the cart area, unless I can’t find one close by, or it is pouring down rain. Sometimes I even take back the ones that are left beside my car.
ALWAYS return it.
return it, cause I’m just like that
Yes
I usually leave it off to the side where it will not hit another car if it begins to roll.
Christy
Always return the cart at least to the parking lot cart rack. Sometimes to the store itself.
~t~
I return it
IM ME!!!!!@
i put it in that little designated area in the parking lot for the shopping carts. You know, the sorta metal cage thing.
Return it to one of the aisle for shopping carts in the parking lot.
[ariana]
I always seem to park next to the return stall .. mmmm .. wonder why .. Yes, I return the carts.
I return it.
I’d return it.
I always return it and usually those around me. One time i did this in fact I grabbed these carts that were just rolling around and almost hit this guys car. As I was returning them he told my girlfriend who was with me that I was his hero. HAHAHA true story. That just made my day and I continue to do it to this day.
oh I just kinda roll it over to the old man/woman greeter….those people are a special breed with that permanent smile on their face that matches those yellow stickers they give to the kids.
I’m a cart returner.
My mommy makes me put it in one of those outside things while she sits in the car.
Wal Mart is the devil so i dont go there….but if i do have a shoping cart…i ride in it for five hours…then i put it back…or throw it into cars and shit.
~*~Paige~*~A.K.A.Twinkie!!!Boomboxx!!!
I return it. Usually, if there are any shopping carts around, I taken them in with my when entering the store, as well.
I return it because I know people that work for bringing the carts in at all the stores I shop… and we all know they don’t enjoy it. Besides, is it really that hard to return it? It’s not that far of a walk…
But then again, my mom uses her handicap sign thingy… (she’s on oxygen)…so we get to park up front!
Haha all you not-being-able-to-find-a-spot-ers!
always return it.
I always return it. My kids are generally with me and watching to see if I can live up to my own standards.
I don’t actually shop at Wal-Mart, because, as Benjermanifestdestiny said, it sucks the life out of you. I prefer Meijer’s or Target.
Besides, Wal-Mart censors all their rock. NEVER the rap, just rock. Mayby it’s because our nearest one is in downtown Columbus (Ohio), and that has turned to ghetto slum recently, what with all the Katrina victims moving up here.
return it!
RETURN IT!! This is a BIG pet peeve of mine. People who leave their carts in the lot are lazy!! They also cause damage to people’s cars.
I usually push mine into someone’s car.
I should get paid by wal-mart. If there are carts near my car when I pull in, I will return them. Sometimes there is like 6
I usually put it in one of those shopping cart things in the parking lot. The only times I don’t is when I feel particularly sick, which I know isn’t really a good excuse.
I return it.
I always return them to a proper spot.
My late “Ex” after being in a parking lot, said he noticed how “Those can really fly high, when you hit them just right, huh?”He also mentioned at the same time, that he was avoiding a cop car, and might have become confused!
put it in it’s proper location
I always return it, but the real question for me is Why would I be at walmart? I hate that place…
pssh, i never put it back.
the hypothetical is based upon a worldview that uses carts and cars and shopping centers. what about symbiosis with the land?
It’s about half and half with me–depends how close to a cart corral I am!
being a sacker, the ones who have to pick up the carts, i put them in the corral, or if im close enough or it’s raing, inside. Trust me, it sucks having to run all around a huge parking lot to pick up stray carts people are too lazy to put back
Put it back.
i always return mine to those “return carts here” place if i do not leave it at the register.
Return it.
return it if is easy enough (ie the return place isnt too far away)
I return it, definitely. Sometimes it’s taken away by shoppers who are passing by to go into the store.
Put it back. I might be wearing my ‘Jesus’ cap and I wouldn’t want to damage my witness by being lazy.
L,r
yeah i return it
I always put it back in the cart corral
I always return it…but darn I am such a perfectionist.
I would return the cart.
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I usualy return it to it’s proper place, but-
admit sometimes I have left it right in the parking space!!!!!
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Lori
how about i drive off with it?
i return it, unless it’s raining.
it depends on what mood I am in … also how much time I have.
i do the noble thing and walk it back.
that is what i would like to believe.
but sadly, no. too lazy.
depending on my mood and if i have my son in tow.
the few times that i have shopped at wal mart with a shopping cart, i have left it off to the side.
return it if the thing not far away
I return it because wal-mart ussually has convienient places through out the parking lot to return to. If they don’t I try to park it in a place out of the way or on an island thingy.
I leave it off to the side. there are people who have a job to return carts, and i’m not going to deny them their job. whether they like it or not. i’d expect them to do the same to me. which they probably will…
return it. stinks when someone leaves it in the only decent parking spot left.
LOL…..I usually return it……..but sometimes if I am feeling lazy, I aim the cart towards the cart return in the parking lot and push the cart as hard as I can towards it and pray it goes it……most of the time it does.
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I usually return it to the cart area, but will admit in really horrendous weather, to having left it right by where I parked.
I take it to the designated area, unless my husband is in a hurry and says “that’s what they get paid for” in which case I leave it wherever.
My late “Ex” was known to bump them with his heavy 70′s car, just to see how far he could make them go, but when he got back from Walmart one time, he said had seen a cop and said how”those suckers could really fly!”…what he had said to the cop!
try to return it lol..try
> Return it.
Peace
Only if the “proper place” is close by.
i return it every time! i feel so proud!! not really