The Shopping Cart Test

[Bipolarcy]

When I saw this was a shopping cart test, I knew I could pass with flying colors because I was there when it happened. Turns out you were talking about a different shopping cart scenario.

At a football game, my rowdy roommate and his rowdy friends from Denison, all of whom were drunk by this time, espied of all things, a shopping cart in the stadium on the concourse and decided, "Oh, a toy."

They went down and fetched it, stuck my smallish roommate, (5-8 but built like a brick sh!thouse) and started passing him up the stands. They took turns getting in the shopping cart and getting passed up the stands, all the while, the crowd was shouting, "shopping cart, shopping cart," calling for it to be passed up to them.

Some of these guys were huge, like a 6-9 DE walk-on who never suited up on game days, and another guy who was a starting LB for a small-college powerhouse in Iowa (can't remember which one) who had a bye week that weekend. Eventually, they all got tossed out of the stadium. No, they did not put the shopping cart back where it belonged.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

No that's just the way they cut down on labor, don't have to to send anyone out to wrangle carts when everyone brings them back to the door.

If you’re lucky and quick enough, you can give someone a quarter and just take their cart to use. Neither of you does the lock-unlock hassle.

 

[CycloneErik]

Captain Boring here. If I'm planning to get a cart, I park next to the cart corral. That way, I can unload the cart, strap kiddo into car seat, and walk like a foot to put the cart away.

Sorry for anyone who developed high blood pressure from this action thriller of a post.

 

[NWICY]

When I saw this was a shopping cart test, I knew I could pass with flying colors because I was there when it happened. Turns out you were talking about a different shopping cart scenario.

At a football game, my rowdy roommate and his rowdy friends from Denison, all of whom were drunk by this time, espied of all things, a shopping cart in the stadium on the concourse and decided, "Oh, a toy."

They went down and fetched it, stuck my smallish roommate, (5-8 but built like a brick sh!thouse) and started passing him up the stands. The took turns getting in the shopping cart and getting passed up the stands, all the while, the crowd was shouting, "shopping cart, shopping cart," calling for it to be passed up to them.

Some of these guys were huge, like a 6-9 DE walk-on who never suited up on game days, and another guy who was a starting LB for a small-college powerhouse in Iowa (can't remember which one) who had a bye week that weekend. Eventually, they all got tossed out of the stadium. No, they did not put the shopping cart back where it belonged.

Passing people up seems to be a tradition that is now gone. Which I suppose is a good thing. It was still a thing in the early 80's. Never saw anyone get hurt so I think it was all right but a different time.

 

[Bluffers]

Not all carts are created equal. Some just need alone time.

 

[BCClone]

Not all carts are created equal. Some just need alone time.
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Was naughty and put in timeout.

 

[BCClone]

Passing people up seems to be a tradition that is now gone. Which I suppose is a good thing. It was still a thing in the early 80's. Never saw anyone get hurt so I think it was all right but a different time.

Samantha Steele got passed up I believe.

 

[mp444]

I've had someone ask me to take their cart back to the store for them.

I declined, mostly out of confusion. Not sure if that means I'm a bad person or not.

 

[mynameisjonas]

I am sure lots of repulsive humans still put their carts away. Things like this are just dumb.

Tuco doesn’t put his cart away.

 

[ruflosn]

Whenever possible I try to park my car near one (not necessarily right next to it), and always put the cart back. I also put it on the side of the coral with the same size carts at Hy-vee where there are full size & minis.

I like to park next to the cart returns not only for the returning the cart, but one less chance your car gets the holy f dinged out of it.

 

[3TrueFans]

I like to park next to the cart returns not only for the returning the cart, but one less chance your car gets the holy f dinged out of it.

Until someone comes riding in on the back of a shopping cart.

 

[ruflosn]

Until someone comes riding in on the back of a shopping cart.

True

 

[Macloney]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CartNarcs?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Cart Narcs.

These legends call people out that leave carts in lots, call them lazy and record and post it.

Some of these videos are classic. Lazy bones...

 

[tm3308]

I am sure lots of repulsive humans still put their carts away. Things like this are just dumb.

Maybe, but that only makes this a square/rectangle situation. Not all who put their cart away are good people, but all good people put away their cart.

 

[CtownCyclone]

I like to park next to the cart returns not only for the returning the cart, but one less chance your car gets the holy f dinged out of it.

Me too. I find that in the South, fewer people return carts, so I feel like it's a good investment to park in a place where carts won't be.

 

[motorcy90]

Putting the cart away gives me an excuse to ride the cart across the parking lot.

Ride it full out the store.. adds to the fun then ghost ride it into the corral..

 

[NWICY]

Maybe, but that only makes this a square/rectangle situation. Not all who put their cart away are good people, but all good people put away their cart.

Nice to see you dropping by. Still doing the sports stuff?

 

[ruflosn]

Me too. I find that in the South, fewer people return carts, so I feel like it's a good investment to park in a place where carts won't be.

I was just down in southern Missouri and one guy called a shopping cart a buggy so maybe the procedures aren’t clear? On a side note in Ames the days of the cart being left at the bus stop seem to be down

 

[tm3308]

Nice to see you dropping by. Still doing the sports stuff?

I've been shooting for a group of newspapers in Wisconsin for the past 2+ years. Still plenty of sports, but only a little beyond high school stuff (shot a few Wisconsin football games and one Packers game last season).

 

[Althetuna]

Moar shopping carts and the broken window theory


In the final test, researchers went to a parking garage that served a supermarket and a gym. In one scenario, four carts were strewn about the garage, and in another all carts were in the receptacles. The researchers left flyers on the windows of the cars in the garage and—you guessed it—58 percent of participants littered (i.e., threw their flyers on the ground) when there were unmanaged shopping carts compared with 30 percent when all carts were in the receptacle.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...their-shopping-carts?utm_source=pocket-newtab