Shopping Cart Shitheads

How many times have you drove into the parking lot of the neighborhood market and go to park in that open parking spot only to be thwarted by a shopping cart that some lazy, selfish, asshole left in the parking spot? The answer is way too fucking often.

I can understand Grandma's or invalid's that can't push an empty shopping cart very far without causing some sort of permanent damage to the parts of their body that isn't riddled with disease yet but that is usually not the case. Nope. It's usually some 2 legged, healthy (except for being a fat fuck) dickhead that just doesn't feel like walking the extra 25 feet to place the cart in the cart holding area. Hey folks, thats why they have those cart holding areas. To put your fucking cart into when your done buying up all the twinkies and pop tarts in the store.

If I must look at a positive side to this excessive laziness, I can say that I am thankful that the selfish prick that left their cart in the parking stall at least didn't just let it go rolling down a slight downgrade only to have it end up denting someones car.

When I go to the market, I now make it my business to observe people in the parking lot with their carts. Just about the only time I see those carts end up in the holding area is when Mom tells Junior to take it over their. If Mom was by herself, the cart would stay as close to her vehicle as possible to still allow her to exit her parking space without hitting it.

This clogging of the parking lots with carts is epidemic. I'll bet that the ratio of people who actually return their cart is probably one in 30 or higher. There are very well designated and conveniently placed shopping cart holding areas in every store parking lot in Southern California. These holding areas are usually surrounded by metal rails and have those little metal thresholds to keep the carts from rolling out by themselves. You really can't miss them allthough some are easier to get to then others.

So the next time you go to the market to do your shopping, try returning your cart to the store or the cart holding area instead of just leaving it for some other schmuck to come along and then have to stop, put his or her car in park, get out and move the damn cart and then get back in the vehicle to finish parking. It really is frustrating.

I know that I may be reaching for the impossible here but here is one more suggestion. When you go to the store and park your car, how about just looking around the parking lot and grabbing one of the loose carts that are laying around the lot. You were going to grab a cart when you got inside the store anyway, right? This will help to clean up the parking lots and get you a shopping cart that has already been tested and used. No squeaky wheels.

It's all part of human kindness folks. Just think about your fellow man once in a while and it won't seem like such a chore to walk that cart over to the proper place.

And remember this, shopping carts are owned by the stores. They are not meant to be taken home or used as race carts by high school kids (although that was fun). Of course the only exceptions are the homeless. Everyone knows you can't have a bag lady without a shopping cart. Right? Right.