photo by normanack

Going to the super market is  a favorite past time of mine.  Call me low brow, but there’s nothing better than browsing the isles where you can find face wash, strawberries, magazines, wine and a bin full of $5 so awesomely bad that they’re good DVDs all in the same space. Plus, they always have a fun little holiday section. What I can’t stand is what takes place in the parking lot of said super market, mainly that people have the audacity to leave their shopping carts in parking spaces and raised sections of plants and trees, when there are at least three CLEARLY designated areas to deposit your cart. Would it kill you to walk an extra few feet? Really? Would it kill you?

I’m convinced that the selfish people who can’t put away their own shopping carts are also the ones who wont ever give you way to switch your lane on the freeway or talk horribly to wait staff.

I don’t understand the disconnect between having enough decency to realize that you take responsibility of a cart when you decide to put your groceries in it and carry it out the door. The fact that someone would leave a cart in a parking spot, therefore rendering the spot unfit for another car to use is beyond selfish and careless. It’s a matter of etiquette at this point really and blatant laziness.

It’s one of the mysteries of life I ponder now and then. Have we become so inconsiderate of others and so self-absorbed that we can’t even put shopping carts back where they belong? I guess we have.

I wish there was a secret supermarket cart task force who would hide out in store parking lots across America and verbally assault anyone who couldn’t bare the 15 second walk to properly dispose of their carts. Preferably, it would be someone like Nene from Real Housewives of Atlanta yelling, “I’m just telling you like it is, honey. Put. Away. The. Cart. or you’re getting an ass whoopin.” If she needed back up, she’d call  New York from all the reality shows VH1 has to offer to deliver the punches. She’d be all ” I’m the HBIC up in here. Put that shit away or get socked.”