Do you return your shopping cart?
 

Last night at the grocery store I see a lady leave her shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot. The worst part about it is that there was literally 1 spot between her car and the cart corral. I was telling a guy at work this and he mentioned that he read that people who were successful in life return their carts. I looked for this article and nothing I found seems to be based on any data.

I figured that Chiefsplanet could provide some data.

You're God Damned right I do.

Yes. I'm not a butt ****ing heathen.

Every time. If you really want data, why to make this a poll?

Yes...always.

Absolutely. It's the decent thing to do. Society is based on rules and if you break those rules, society breaks down.

Return your damned shopping cart.

Yep, and I'll take any stragglers along the way.

You seem nice.

you were in before the poll

Hell no. I don't shop very often but when I do I leave my cart at the top of my parking space for them to pick up when they come out.

You, my friend, are a job creator.

:DI asked the kid at Albertsons a few years back if he minded when people didn't return their carts. He said absolutely not, they like being sent out each hour on cart duty, gives them a chance to be outdoors.

I also open doors for people. Sometimes I use the Force and doors automatically open for me.

No. No poll option fits my thought. Just no.

Absolutely

Every time.

Sometimes I will grab a stray cart and take it inside when I am headed into the store.

Me too. Still haven't figured out why some doors open and some seem resistant to my powers.

Yes, I return them.

When you are good looking, doors open up themselves.

There is a special place in the worst parts of hell for the people who leave their carts in parking spots

I have fun with returning my cart.

When a decent distance from the containment coral, I let it rip as hard as I can push it and see if I can hit the other carts perfectly so my cart opens up the back of the other ones and inserts itself. It makes a sweet racket.

Yes, always.

I'm surprised by there being a total of zero no votes.

Everyone is successful here.

One time I was walking home from work, and I'd worked really late so it was 11 pm or so. I saw a shopping cart from a liquor store near my office. The liquor store is about 8 blocks east of the office, but it's right on my way, so I thought, 'Eh, what the heck.' I took it with me.

This is a pretty major street right off downtown, and its reputation isn't high end. After about a block, I realized that anybody seeing me with my backpack pushing a liquor shopping cart was undoubtedly assuming that I was homeless. But I still took it all the way back.

Yeah, when I take a cart to the corral I tend to push them all together and may even straighten a few out so they all fit together. But then again, I do tend to be a neat freak so this is really just par for the course.

You are a good person.

Every. Damn. Time.

Unless I see a vehicle of a friend of mine in the lot, then usually I'll just push it over at theirs.

I just wanted to earn my Adult Scout merit badge for cart returning.

you both are very sweet.

Thank you!

you're welcome and thanks.

I used to be a cart attendant at Target years ago when I was 20. I always appreciated the ones who weren't too lazy to walk a couple steps to put the cart that the store provided to people in the first place, back in the corral.

So you were a cart attendant that didn't like gathering carts?

Notice he's not one anymore 🤔

Did you ever consider what might happen if the wind moves a cart or it rolls downhill into someone's vehicle?

Jeez, now I feel bad for swiping your bike all those years ago...

I have always found that people who dont return carts to the cart corral are normally fat ****s who could use the exorcise.

I make exceptions for elderly or visibly handicapped, and being fat isnt a handicap its a choice.

THANK YOU!!!!

Yes, unless it's pouring rain or something.

I gathered every cart.

One time I saw somebody leave a cart DIRECTLY BEHIND ANOTHER PERSON'S CAR. I was like "OH HELL NO" and moved the cart myself. I was awarded a Congressional Medal of Freedom for my heroism,

Yes, I'm not a lazy ****ing piece of shit who can't be bothered to return my cart to any of the numerous corals in the parking lot. Aldi's does it right. People will walk a mile to get that quarter back

It's usually one of these things, or it's some self centered uppity type that thinks he's above everyone else.

It's true.... Andy Reid walked a mile to trade up for Pat Mahomes!!!

I mean, I didn't hate the job that much. $8 an hour was not a livable wage.

And probably kicked in the nuts by the old lady that owned the car thinking you were ****ing with it

Hmmm, I do have the a bad hair day once in awhile.

Of course, 25 cents means a lot to me.

Yep. Even when I don't want to do it, the guilt makes me anyways.

:clap: nicely done

I once waved a dude into a stop, as he was about to back over a cart. He glared at me.. then drove forward a few feet, and backed up full speed to blast the cart into my direction. I dove out of the way, but into a ditch. Tore my shirt, and got broken glass in my buttock. When I got up, and dusted myself off.. I hobbled back to my car.. to find that the cart had been flung into the front of my car.. mangling the driver side lights.

I'll find you, you bastard... I'll find you.

Returning a shopping cart is kinda like wiping your own ass. If you're too lazy to not wipe your own ass, just stay home.

Leave It The Way You Found It is one of my favorite rules of thumb. So, of course I put 'em back. I even plan ahead for it by seeking a parking spot near the cart corral (people with shiny cars tend to avoid them).

The miscreants who dump the cart anywhere without regard for anyone but themselves are just contemptible. Don't even get me started on the assholes who ditch motorized carts, that other people truly need, in the outer reaches of the parking lot.

This part never bothered me though because usually the ones using the motorized carts were handicapped anyways, and I'd immediately jump on it and it gave me a reason to sit and ride it back inside.

Occasionally on weekends the kids would come in around 9pm and start trying to ride them around. Usually we put a stop to it pretty quickly if we knew nothing was wrong with them.

Of course. There are adults that don't do this?

Drive through a Food City parking lot.

I always return mine. I ride that bitch like I'm 10 years old and it's a giant skateboard. No shit. I get a jogging start, hop on the back of the cart, just above the rear wheels, and the ride that baby to just in front of the cart stall, pushing off with one foot running the entire way. Then I jump off and slam that bitch into the other carts, hoping for a perfect slam dunk fit. Sometimes I raise my hands, AKA, "TOUCHDOWN" as it slams into a perfect position. People ALWAYS look at me like WTF? MY wife hates it. My kids laugh their asses off.

Thank you

I want to party with this guy. And maybe his wife.

Bet it was Alex Smith

throw it in the back of the truck and sell it to the old man in the trailer court for $14.
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I always push it to the farthest away portion of the parking lot and turn it on its side.

You must have a shit load of shopping carts in your garage

You dick!

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Did you mean return back to my HOME?

I currently have 14 in the garage, customize them and trick them out and then sell them to the newly homeless.


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Yes, I return them to the corral.
I am a highly successful international playboy, so your friend is spot on.

I want one with flames and a Baraka lounger in case I ever lose my job

I don't. My wife does it instead.

This.

Only assholes just flip their carts wherever.

Because they are assholes.

Always. And if the corral is empty and it is towards closing time I take it back inside the store.

So if someone at Aldi gives you their cart do you pay it forward and give it to someone else or pocket that free quarter?

Usually I do.

I live in a dense urban neighborhood, and I'm only two blocks from the grocery store.

In the good old days, I did bring the cart home. I'd then put outside my garage in the alley, and the store had a truck that would drive through all of the alleys and pick up the carts. It was awesome.

The system had been in place long before I moved there, and I was told about it by a bagboy, which gave it legitimacy. However, I was never quite sure if it was a neighborhood service or if so many people walked off with the carts that the store did it out of necessity.

My question was answered several years later when the store remodeled. They put invisible leashes on all of the carts, so now if you reach the edge of the parking lot the wheels all lock up.

I'm used to it now, so I make small purchases more frequently. But it was annoying to initially figure it out, because the store didn't say anything about it. People just ended up with full carts that were locked up, and they were two blocks from home on foot.

what shits me, is when you get 2/3's into an empty parking spot between two large vehicles and THEN you notice the trolly in your spot :cuss:

I usually give the person who gave me the cart the quarter. If they decline, I pay it forward

Don’t make this about race!!!

I can't remember the last time i didn't return one.

Of course! Doesn't everybody?

Oh wait, never mind...I guess not everybody.

I used to do this when I was younger.

These days I just go into the produce section, hold up a bag of oranges and apples, and look back and forth intently between them.

Dinny