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re: Oldie: Shopping Cart Theory
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:33 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:33 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
quote:
and both times the cops told us the scheme the are running in detail.
And the cops read about it on Facebook like every other person.
Go look up the FBI stats on kids being kidnapped by strangers. Something like 300-400 people under the age of 21 abducted by strangers every year. It's extremely low. Someone in your family or someone you are friends with is way more likely to kidnap your kids than a stranger in a busy parking lot.
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Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:34 pm to RodFarva
quote:Terrible comparison.
Exactly! Do you clean your table after eating at a restaurant (a restaurant not some fast casual shite)?
The more apt comparison would be you dropped your utensils on the ground right in the middle of the restaurant where people are walking back and forth consistently.
Are you going to do the right thing and pick those up or be a loser and say that is someone else's job?
That's the better comparison.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:36 pm to Antib551
quote:I'm sorry your children are unable to walk, thoughts and prayers.
If my youngest kids (2&4) are with me, I don't return it, as I'm not turning my back on my young ones or leaving them unattended while I walk across the way to put a buggy away
quote:This is you admitting you're just using your children as an excuse to not have to return it.
If I'm by myself, I most always return.
Even when you have no excuse to not return it, you still do so sometimes.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:38 pm to UltimaParadox
When I see someone (healthy, able to not be a piece of shite) putting their cart anywhere but the corral, I have them push the cart to me and I wait until they put it in reverse and leave it behind their car. Probably gonna frick with the wrong person one day, but I enjoy knowing I've pissed off a very inconsiderate and lazy person.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:40 pm to shel311
I look for an empty space in the parking lot and leave my cart in the middle of that space so some one has to get out of their car and move it to park there.
Sometimes I'll park nearby to watch the frustration.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:41 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
Not putting the cart back in the cart corral because of human trafficking may be the most hilarious excuse I’ve ever read 
the mental gymnastics are Olympian
the mental gymnastics are OlympianPosted on 9/29/23 at 2:41 pm to Nawlens Gator
quote:
I look for an empty space in the parking lot and leave my cart in the middle of that space so some one has to get out of their car and move it to park there.
Sometimes I'll park nearby to watch the frustration.
Why? Also, why don't you use any salt on your food, you weirdo?
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:45 pm to Nawlens Gator
Yup, if the cart corral is full, Ill push all the other carts into the parking lot and then leave my cart in the parking lot so I dont look like the only a-hole.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:53 pm to kengel2
quote:
I dont care either way, but id have my kid kick you in the nuts.
Joke's on you as your kid will be kidnapped and trafficked when you send them to kick someone in the nuts. This is according to some weird reality some live in...
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:00 pm to When in Rome
quote:That was pretty good.
Not putting the cart back in the cart corral because of human trafficking may be the most hilarious excuse I’ve ever read the mental gymnastics are Olympian
I'm trying to figure out how these folks' kids get from the parking lot to the inside of the store without getting snatched up...really makes you think...if they can make it into store from the parking lot and back to the parking lot from the store safely, why exactly can't they make it from the cart corral back to the car safely?
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:00 pm to LouisianaLady
quote:
So you leave it in the parking lot because you can’t bring your kids with you to the cart corral probably less than 50 feet or less from where you are standing?
If the kids are 2 and 4, that's reasonable.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:01 pm to moneyg
quote:It's really not.
If the kids are 2 and 4, that's reasonable.
There's no issue getting the kid from the parking lot into the store, so there's no logic that they can't get the kids to and from the cart corral.
It's illogical and just an excuse to be lazy. That same poster with the 2 & 4 year old kid basically admitted it was an excuse when he said he sometimes leave the cart when he's alone too.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:09 pm to LouisianaLady
quote:
Exactly. The kids thing makes no sense to me. Bring them to the cart corral the exact same way you brought them across the parking lot into the store and then throughout the store and then back to the lot.
I agree. I'm so over the parking for people with kids as well. Mostly you can walk across the parking lot as well as I can. You're not special. I wasn't special when my kids were little.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:11 pm to Tigers13
quote:I have twins. The thought of not returning the cart when they were little quite literally never once crossed my mind, so...
Do you have kids? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but more for my curiosity, I bet you don't have kids.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:13 pm to LaLadyinTx
quote:
I agree. I'm so over the parking for people with kids as well. Mostly you can walk across the parking lot as well as I can. You're not special. I wasn't special when my kids were little.
I'd much prefer well laid out pedestrian walkways throughout parking areas of shopping centers over parent designated parking (which I've never seen).
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:15 pm to Tigers13
quote:
Do you have kids? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but more for my curiosity, I bet you don't have kids.
I have two and I've never once been afraid they were going to get snatched up and trafficked on the black market. I'm more concerned with them being hit by a car in parking lots so my head is on a swivel while walking in parking lots.
Are yall afraid they'll be snatched up while walking in or walking out of the store? That's the same thing as having them walk with you to the cart return. If you don't want them walking with you, put their asses in the vehicle first and put the fear of God into them if they want to get out. Lock the doors, and return the cart and be back at the car within 30 seconds.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:16 pm to drunkenpunkin
quote:How did you get him from the parking lot and into the store? Your logic makes no sense, it's just a reason to be lazy.
This. My 5 year old is autistic and can't be trusted in parking lots or alone. I try very hard to not shop alone with him, but sometimes there's just no choice. On those trips, I don't return the cart.
quote:A nice little microcosm of what's wrong in America these days. Folks care about themselves only, don't care about others at all.
If someone has an issue with that, that's their problem, not mine.
These types of folks are the same folks who would yell the loudest and demand the grocery store pay for the dent in their car when someone else does the same thing and a gust of wind sends the cart into the side of their car. No doubt about it.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:18 pm to drunkenpunkin
quote:Again, how does he survive going from the car into the store?
Because I put him in the car immediately because dashing across the parking lot unexpectedly is an issue.
quote:I think everyone gets that you're using your autistic kid as an excuse to be lazy. No one is misunderstanding that.
I get that y'all don't get it
Posted on 9/29/23 at 3:24 pm to Pettifogger
quote:
Being overly cautious with your own children will meet no objection from me, but this Facebook mom kid snatching fear is less realistic than the Facebook mom being-murdered-and-on-Dateline fear.
And the craziest thing about people's paranoia is that the chances of these kinds of crime happening was much greater 20+ years ago, but people worried about them less because we didn't hear about every single one on the news.
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