What sick bastard invented those supersize "racecar" shopping carts?

[flvegan]

It's not that I begrudge the little dickens' having a super time at the Palace of Meandering Idiots (a/k/a the grocery store), pretending to be Cole Trickle or Ricky Bobby or whatever the NASCAR drivers' names are. Hell, in my youth (during which we had none of said gigantic carts, mind you) I might have liked sitting in a shopping cart that was obviously quite superior and faster than "that other kid's" cart. But lets face it, folks can hardly pilot the smaller ones. These behemoths of the aisle are at least 1/3 longer and 1/2 wider (yes, I'm aware that I sound like a penis enlargement commercial) than the standard ones and have the turn radius of Titanic. Additionally, through personal observation, it appears that these Escalades of the grocery are NEVER returned to a cart return.

When I come to power, shoppers will need a special permit to use one of those. Damn right there's a shopping cart pilots test for those. Just you wait.

[LeftyMom]

1. Have you ever tried to push one of those fuckers, let alone steer?

Once. After that I told LK that I love him, but no enough to do that again. ;)

Our food co-op has half-sized carts for the kids to push. I like that much better.

[LynneSin]

12. HALF SIZE CARTS - NO FUCKING WAY

I would rather have kids tucked away nicely in those shopping carts with the cars in the front then to give kids a license to go hog-wild crazy pushing pint sized grocery carts into any stationary item they can find like food displays or nearby human beings. Those mini-carts endanger those of us innocent bystanders who are shopping peacefully minding our own business only to have some kid, probably hyped-up on sugar, ramroding his mini-grocery cart into the back of my legs (and yes, it has happened). Put the damn kids in one of those racing car carts and strap them in so they don't annoy the rest of us thank you very much!

[flvegan]

16. Preach it, sistah!

[LeftyMom]

17. Mine just buys produce and marks things off the list.

He's really into the responsibility of being the one with the list. If we decide to buy something extra he writes it on the list and then crosses it off. :shrug:

So he's much too busy being The Keeper of the Grocery List to go tearing off running into anybody. If he was I'd just make him sit in a regular cart.

[LynneSin]

20. Ok so you have the one decent kid out of the millions here in the USA

that still does NOT justify those idiotic mini-carts.

It took 2 weeks for that bruise to heal

:cry:

[LeftyMom]

24. Seems like it sometimes.

He has his moments, but not at the store because he knows I'll take him straight home without passing Go.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Nice post, Dale Jr...

:eyes:

And it's Dick Trickle! How could you get that wrong? :rofl:

[flvegan]

4. You're kidding me.

Dick Trickle? He got beat up as a kid, I bet. Where did I get Cole Trickle?

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Oh no, my friend, I do not kid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle

:D

:rofl:

[DS1]

7. Days of Thunder

[flvegan]

9. Ah, Jesus.

[LeftyMom]

10. I had no idea you loved Tom Cruise movies so much.

Is there anything we need to discuss? :popcorn:

[flvegan]

15. It was a car movie in the early 90's.

I was experimenting cinematically.

Shut up.

[LeftyMom]

18. Oh no. I'm going to tease you about that for years.

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. We never had those. We had fire engine ones instead. :^D

[LeftyMom]

5. Well, he lives in Lower Crackerstan.

Out here they look like butterflies. :rofl:

[Shell Beau]

8. They are NOT user friendly either.

[trof]

11. Carts? You had CARTS?

I remember my first trips to the grocery store.
You walked up to the counter and told the grocery clerk what you wanted, or handed him your mom's list.
He went through the shelves, filling your order.
Brought everything back up to the front counter, totaled it up, and bagged it.
If your mom had 'credit' and paid weekly or monthly, he'd write the amount down on her page in his ledger.

Actually, I kind of miss that.
;-)

[LeftyMom]

13. As much as I tease him about his incredibly advanced age,

he's barely 37.

[wartrace]

14. Parents just need to leave those damn kids in the car out in the lot.

They ain't buying anything, they just get in the way & have temper tantrums. Do us all a favor & leave your kid in the car. Back in the good old days, thats what responsible parents did.

[LeftyMom]

19. That's not even legal.

:wtf:

[trof]

21. Yeah, with the windows up good and tight.

;-)

[TK421]

22. Did they at least leave the radio on for them?

I would have needed some tunes while I was suffocating

[wartrace]

25. I'm serious, my mom used to leave us in the car.

I remember sitting out in the lot with my brother waiting on mom to finish shopping. Either that or she would leave us at the "arcade" most stores had near the entrance. She knew we wouldn't go anywhere and back in the 60's you couldn't GIVE a kid away let alone get one abducted. If kids were getting abducted we didn't know about it, this was well before 24/7 news on ten different channels.

[BeachBaby]

23. Probably the same guy who invented speed bumps.

He's teh evil.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. Even the ordinary cart gets supersized

With an eight-pack of plastic bottles draped over each side of the cart, the thing can take up even more space in the aisle. I haven't yet been successful in knocking a bottle loose just by subtle ramming, but I keep trying ...

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

27. Oh great, flvegan's using palindromes again.

Dammit, I'm mad!

[flvegan]

Yeah, nobody's gonna notice "dammit im mad", Palin's drone.

[BeachBaby]

28. Mad? Or jealous that you didn't think of it first?

:P

[Dr. Strange]

31. I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I?

[Zavulon]

29. As if that's not bad enough,

the supermarket I used to shop at recently added these miniature carts that kids could push around, along with a steel pole on the side with a "shopper in training" sign on it. They clog up the aisles like nobody's business because the parents never let the little jerks out of their sight, so in addition to the supersize cart you speak of, there's little cart right there beside it which makes it impossible for YOUR supersize cart to pass that of the parent blocking you.

I actually switched supermarkets because of those dumbass little carts. My current supermarket sucks, but it has normal-sized carts and no little ones.

[MorningGlow]

30. Oh man, I hate those things

I'm glad MG Jr's fascination with them was short-lived--he needs to see what's going on, so he wasn't thrilled with the view of everyone's ankles. In the immortal words of Douglas Adams, they "steer like a cow." Put a humongo pack of bottled water and a giant bag of litter in 'em and they don't work as ballast; somehow they make them MORE off-kilter. I never could get one of those around a corner. Yuk. x(