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Tried leaving grocery carts in the corral for a week and now I judge everyone who doesn't
After watching three carts roll into cars in the Target parking lot on Tuesday, I decided to stop being lazy about it, and now I get irrationally annoyed at the people who leave theirs two feet from the corral.
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emery_black19h agoMost Upvoted
Oh come on, is it that serious? I leave my cart in the corral about 80 percent of the time but sometimes I'm in a hurry with a screaming kid or my hands are full and I wedge it between two cars where it's not gonna roll anywhere. Not everyone who skips the corral is some lazy jerk, maybe they just had a rough day. I'd rather see someone leave their cart in a safe spot that's not in the corral than watch them struggle for five minutes to get it back. Seems like you're turning a small thing into a big moral test for strangers.
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bell.felix14h ago
So is 80 percent good enough to get a gold star or do I need to bump it up to 85? I'm with you on this one honestly. I've definitely been the guy with a toddler having a meltdown and a trunk full of groceries, and I just wedge that cart between two carts in the lot and call it a day. Sure it's not perfect but neither is my life, and I'd rather save my energy for dealing with the screaming kid than battling a cart across a parking lot.
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olivia39813h ago
That's fair and I get the rough day thing, but for me it's more about how easy the corral actually is. Most stores have them spaced out where you're never more than like twenty feet from one. Wedging a cart between cars still leaves it sticking out where someone backing out might clip it, and then you've got a runaway cart and maybe a dented bumper. The toddler meltdown scenario is real, yeah, but those same five seconds it takes to nudge it into a corral could save some other parent from watching their car get banged up. It's just one of those small courtesies that adds up when everyone does it.
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