People leaving shopping carts....
 

this has to be one of my biggest peeves, how hard is it to put your cart into the return?!?!?!

I go to lunch on break, park on the side of WalMart to avoid anything happening and still I manage to come out to this (we have a wind advisory here). I was basically minutes away from a cart into my Z because of lazy a-holes.

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Ticks me off quite a bit. When youre done shopping you should go put the cart in its area. Not push away from your car (so you dont hit it) INTO another parking slot.

I think it's ALDI that does this, but they basically make you put a quarter in a lock to get a cart, and when you return the cart, you get a quarter back.

It's very noticable how many less carts there are in their parking lot vs Walmart...

I think your situation, should something have happened, the store would have been liable due to negligence...

Sh!t.. people are so damn lazy nowadays. Yesterday I went to the movies and there was exactaly 4 people in the theatre including my wife and myself. One dbag leaves his cup and nacho box sitting around his seat after the movie and walks out. WTF is wrong with you lazy basturds????

I always take the cart all the way to the cart return no matter how far away it is but you know something?.. in this day and age, that kind of "show by example" isn't exactaly rubbing off.

Pathetic.

well think of the bright side in your case your car didnt get hit... but i agree how anoying it is... why doesnt everywhere have the aldi coin system that sounds awesome..

i hate when people leave shopping carts everywhere i parked by an island and when i came out of walmart i had 5! carts on the island right next to my car i had to back out of the spot because there was two blocking the car none hit it though

i hate it too. the shopping cart return things are basically every third parking spot. lazy people suck

One of the reasons America is FAT. I was at Sam's today and moved 2 carts to the cart return because some lazy POS couldn't make the trip. Total disrespect for their fellow man. I wish it was legal to bitch-slap dbags in public and get a reward for it.

The most pathetic thing to watch is the way some dbag will try for 2 minutes to park the cart so that it doesn't actually roll away when in half that time, they could have just taken it over to the cart return and worked off part of that Whopper they choked down at the drive-thru.

werd.... or how they will wait like vultures if they think they can get a closer parking spot when they could have parked farther away and still got inside in less time.

Hahaha i fking hate those people.. When I see someone waiting for me to back out of a "good spot" I usually just sit there and fire up a cigarette and wait..

And of course as soon as they give up waiting for me, I pull out of the spot. :)

Yes I'm an *******..

I have my moments like that. :happydance:

yah, ive had 2 cars in the past get hit by shopping carts. i usually dont take my hobby cars to the super market but since my wife needed to be dropped off for something i drove her in my hobby car at the time.

and you guess it... some f-head placed cart in sidewalk + wind = BAM!

that's about when i spent a few grand for PDR training and tools. :D hahaha.

If I drive the Z to the store, I park far away. The weather is always nice, so I don't mind the walk in. I also like looking at the car as I walk away or towards it. Someday, I'm going to catch a hottie peaking in, bent over, unaware....nevermind.

There's your problem right there. Walmart shoppers (no offense to any of you guys here who shop there) are generally lazy *** motherf*ckers who would use a conveyor belt into the shop if they could. The day they are responsible and take carts back to the return area is the day hell freezes over.

hahahaha i've done that...except i don't smoke, so i just sat back and relaxed for abit...

ended up falling asleep a few times for like an hour :rofl2:

Falling asleep??! LMAO!! :bowrofl:

The best is when you get in, someone pulls up and hits their blinker holding up 5 damn ppl, you hit the brake lights, throw it in reverse...

...and then throw it back into park and bolt back inside the store just for the hell of it.

Wait....... You actually parked your car in a Walmart parking lot??....:thumbsdown:

:iagree:

Wow, the generalizations fly...

I'm fat (well, I don't think I'm FUCKTARD fat, but still big...at 6'0" / 295lbs) - but I always put the carts where they should go.

When I hit home depot and use one of those BMF carts, I roll the thing back up into the store.

Then again, when I was younger, and had a car I didn't mind getting torn up, I played shopping car demolition derby. Amazing what a 78 T-Bird going 30 will do to a shopping cart. I'm sure the store thought 'them damn teenagers tearing up our carts...' my thought is, you pay people to collect carts, and put carts into parking-spot containers...

Yet they're everywhere.


My favorite is when people put them in the cart holder, and it's ovbious someone hasn't come by with the little battery operated cart pusher to send them back in the store. In my day, you had to PUSH them...my record was 56 carts in one shot...no battery wimp-assist! RAWK!

He did park on the far end of the lot...hehe. I live in really nice area and ocassionally I go to Wallyworld park on the end, even people with much nicer cars than my Z donot have respect for other people's sh"t. I see them opening doors into other people's cars, letting baskets roll into people's cars etc. I day I was at Whole foods and watched some jerk in a Mercedes E500 let his basket hit and scratch a ladies rear door on her Lex GS350, he looked and kept walking. I got his license plate number and gave it to the lady and waited for the police, she was greatful for me doing that.

Slick system with the quarter thing. I think walmart had something similar, where if you brought a cart back they give you a certificate for money off your next purchase or something.

when i see a shopping cart next to me I just do this:
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Kills two birds with one stone.

in regards to one being there when I come out, I always try to find a spot in the highest point on the lot - that's about the most you can do besides parking in the boonies (which I do as well)

Kinda reminds me of that Meguairs ad that I saw in Car And Driver!!!! Shopping carts = Pure Evil!!

I don't shop at Wal-Mart for this very reason. My wife took my 3 month old Tahoe up to Wal-Mart in the spring a couple years ago. We were having the typical 35 to 40 mph spring winds in Oklahoma. Well, my wife does what I've taught her to do and parks out in the boonies, to protect from door dings. She is about to get out of the car and feels/hears this loud bang. She thinks she's been backed into or hit by another car. She glances around and doesn't see any cars and figures it was something weird. So she goes into the store and shops. Well on the way out she is walking up to the car and can see the massive dent in the driver side door. So she comes home and tells me. Well I'm like why didn't you go in and talk to the manager of the store. She says they won't do anything because of the signs on the cart returns that says they aren't responsible for damages. So I call my uncle lawyer and ask him and he says to go back up there right away and talk to the manager. Needless to say Wal-Mart's claim department found them not liable for damages, and i got stuck with the 1000 dollar repair bill.

So, I don't shop there anymore. Oh yeah, Wal-Mart actually has a form for baskets hitting cars. It has spots for pictures and damage descriptions and so forth.

The parking on the highest point is a good idea!

think ditched carts in the parking lot is disrespect?? ....... i sometime see carts on my street and on the main street to my neighbourhood..... dumb ppl actually take the time to push a cart into intersections :eek:

I'd leave the quarter and just push the cart onto one of the little curbs there. That's my move...cart 'beached' half on the curb so it doesn't roll around.

i used to slam the cart into the cart return LOL... its bitter sweet because the carts are useful but its annoying to see them ditched all over the place... so i some times collect any carts near my car and slam it into the cart return.


also, when waiting in line with ur cart... ever had those dummies who push the cart so close to ur back.... one time some one hit my heel/foot right where it hurts lol, i got so mad... i kicked the cart behind me, things when flying and that person learned a lesson.

It does not only happen at Walmart, it's every where you go grocery. When I used to be a courtesy clerk for Hyvee, I had to run around collecting carts because people left them everywhere. Hyvee's parking lot is not as big as Walmart, but some people are just too damn lazy to take the extra step to return the cart.

:icon18: Nah. They wouldn't use a conveyor belt unless there're donuts giving away free at the end of the belt.


that's for losers. i'd never do that. it's karma. nice to people, they're nice back to you. if you try to be axhole, well maybe you are.

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I have the same problem :(
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wow, they're both the same shade of blue! a match made in heaven!

Human nature never changes!

I see a niche for some enterprising inventor type. Come up with a shopping basket that has some type of bumper on the outside to prevent denting an automobile! Sell the ideal to some large store chain like Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes..etc. and make a killing!

I say put a hot blond in the cart and you're good to go!
If I found this one next to my car I may not complain.....

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Signs don't mean anything. I would have taken that to civil court, and make them prove how they aren't liable (they own the lot, they own the carts, they have employees that their job responsibility is to collect carts), just because they put up a sign.

your car poops on every car in that pic

I wish I woulda went and looked at that color in person but I do love black so I can't complain

thats actually how i got the first "blemish" on my last car. A shopping cart rolled down the hill in the lot right into my car.

i hate lazy people

Oh trust me we argued with them and went back and forth some, but to take it to court would have taken a lot of my uncle's time and we decided it wasn't worth the time or money. I did learn that Wal-Mart has there own claim company. They were the ones that decided Wal-Mart wasn't liable. I still am amazed at how that worked.

I'm sure our shopping there doesn't matter to them one bit, but I can't stand them anymore.