• hungryphrog
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    10 months ago

    Idk why but to me, the front-facing chad always looks like he’s doing a

    blep

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    10 months ago

    Pretty sure if you do that here in Germany you will get stomped into the ground by other shoppers.

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    There’s a Twitter or 4chan post floating around about how putting the cart back is the apex test of your humanity because there’s no reward for doing it and no consequences for not. It’s just “are you a good enough dude to put the cart back?”

    (Unless you live near one of those places where you “rent” the cart for a coin, in which case there is a slim monetary value in cart management.)

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    10 months ago

    I mean you are just throwing away money if you don’t. Oh wait they might be American.

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    “Weee-wooo weee-wooo weee-wooo… Sir, I’ve noticed that you’ve missed the cart return. That’s okay, it’s kinda hard to find. See, the cart goes over there.”

    cue incoming verbal violence.

    For anyone missing the reference: CartNarcs Absolute treasure trove of comedy gold featuring entitled shitty people.

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    In 45 years living in Germany I haven’t seen once a free roaming cart in a car park, the only ones I’ve seen are abducted ones, from homeless people etc standing somewhere under a tree or shit where they can’t cause problems. Just saying.

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    When the air is too intense, it can move carts around and break them into a parked or even a moving car. I didn’t believe it before I saw it myself. One another reason to fix them in a corral. Redoing a paint job after such random shit’s what I wish not to myself, nor to anyone.

    Surprisingly, there’s many videos of that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eHMHxpoVi84

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    Last time this shit came up, some dude chimed in that walking around the parking lot collecting lose carts was the best part of his day, since he could be outside away from managers slowly collecting them relaxing.

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      It was hit or miss at previous jobs. I worked at Kmart for a few years and would often help the stock guys round up carts in the evening. During summer evenings it was kind of fun wandering way out into that concrete sea with the boys, rounding up impossibly far carts and running the wrong carts (or electric scooters) back to the grocery store next door. But during the winter it was hell on fucking earth, and I’d help them round them up just to spare them the agony of a slipped disk.

      I live in Canada now and couldn’t imagine rounding up carts during these cold snaps. You’d probably stick to them, imprisoning you in parking lot until you succumb to frostbite.

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    Ugh. One of the things that I hate about the state of AZ. Seems like the entire state are full of these kinds of assholes that leave carts in the parking lot. Whole fucking herds of carts all over the parking lot with the cart return less than 40 yards away from them.

    I just loudly bitch to my wife when I see someone leave a cart in the parking lot now and make sure they can hear how much I think they’re lazy, assholes.

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    Used to wrangle carts and I didn’t mind the carts that weren’t returned to the corral that much, but I did greatly prefer it when they were at least hiked up onto a planter curb so they don’t roll away.

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      Yes! If I feel I’m too far from the cart return, I will at least put it somewhere safe. The whole point of cart return is to keep the lot clear for cars, assuming there are enough carts to go around

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    I park closer to a corral than to the store. Plus taking one from the parking lot increases the chance that it doesn’t have a wobbly wheel.