- use your directional
- hold the door for the old lady/man
- don't cut me off unless you're going the speed limit
- serve the other person first
- put your shopping cart back when you're done
Aha - the rub. I was at the grocery store at the ungodly hour of 7am last Sunday - because I hate doing it and it's one of the least crowded times and the Kid is home making pancakes with Coach so I have a little "alone" time. I'm putting my reusable (!) bags in the car and this woman slams her trunk and leaves her cart in the parking lot. Now, this was a completely able bodied woman - no visible handicaps or anything - no limp, no oxygen tank - she was about 45 years old. Not old, not young, just a a regular woman out shopping. No kids, no hangers on, nothing. And not only did she leave the thing in the parking lot...she left it in a HANDICAPPED SPOT. BITCH! And I told her so. Lazy ASS.
People who get a cart pass:
- old people who are noticeably frail
- women with babies/kids - often I will put the cart away for you
That's pretty much it. The world is such a shitty place sometimes that the once nice thing you can do is NOT LEAVE YOUR CART IN THE HANDICAPPED SPOT YOU F'N TWAT.
ok, I feel better.
2 comments:
I couldn't make it out, how do you really feel?
Come on, if you're close enough to the handi-spot, you're close enough to walk across the little roadway and put the cart back near the store.
There is one time though when I don't return the cart. It's when the cart corrale is not easy to get to. We have this one grocery store that has a divider the length of the parking lot over to one side. So if you end up parking there, you have to walk all the way around it and then halfway down the next row to return it. That's just not going to happen. So, often I follow other's example and latch my shopping cart in with theirs (not near a handi-spot) to make our own cart corrale.
Nice blog, some day I'll have one that I actually update. Just can't commit the time yet!
Milo
Great post. While I don't always take the cart all the way back inside myself I do behave more politely than your lady did.
If someone is arriving as I finish with the cart I will offer them my cart. If not I push it to the striped "No Parking" area between handicapped spaces so someone parking there has a cart handy.
This allows me to avoid walking across the main drag of the driveway a third and fourth time and risking my life in front of the insane drivers trying to break the sound barrier in the parking lot.
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