When I'm coming at you with carts, MOVE!

[RammsteinGirl]

I was pushing in carts yesterday and I almost hit a younger woman who walked out in front of me not paying attention. Anyone who has ever pushed in shopping carts knows that once they start going, you can't stop them unless you sprint around to the front of the line and stop the first one, which is what I had to do. Thankfully I was only pushing about 6 carts, not 30 or otherwise she'd be a pancake right now. So if you're shopping and you see a person pushing shopping carts toward you - MOVE!

And what was the young lady in question doing when she obliviously walked out in front of me? Texting on her friggin' cell phone, of course! When she did look up and see me standing there with a cross look on my face, she didn't even bother to say "Oh, excuse me" or anything. She just glanced at me and kept walking. I shot her a nasty look when she wasn't looking, or maybe she was looking, frankly I don't give a crap. To top it off, after I came back out and started pushing another load and my co-worker came out to help me, she almost hit us with her SUV. Probably still texting on her cell phone!

[gunsage]

Just start bringing an air horn with you.

"Hey lady! *BWANK!*" (or however one of those sounds)

[RammsteinGirl]

Haha, they probably still wouldn't get out of the damn way. A lot of customers seem to be in their own little world whilst shopping. You say "Hi" to them as you pass by or "Excuse me" if you need to get past them and they act like you don't even exist (how dare the "help" speak to me?!). That is, until they need help with something.

[gunsage]

Well, or you could act crazy, waving your hands and screaming random nonsense when they don't move. Example:

"WARGH! The British are coming!"

And if they still don't pay attention, THUMP, run 'em over.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

What especially frosts my pop-tart when I'm pushing carts is when people hang out in the cart corral and carry on conversations with friends or family members.

Or let their kids run around so I can't push the carts in, lest the pweshus widdul angels run into my line of carts and get an ouchie-boo-boo on their noggins.

My store's carts are pretty big, almost as big as grocery carts, and are made of hard plastic.

[crazylegs]

I've noticed that the local superhell has got some mechanical pushers so if idiot walks out in front of you, all you need do is apply the brakes. Easy.

[mattm04]

I have seen a lady, busy pushing her cart, texting and looking at her list not notice the wall in front of her. She complained that we have walls. She must have been dumber than a brick, but I don't want to insult bricks.

[RammsteinGirl]

I have seen a lady, busy pushing her cart, texting and looking at her list not notice the wall in front of her. She complained that we have walls. She must have been dumber than a brick, but I don't want to insult bricks.

I swear, cell phones MUST have some kind of radiation in them that fries peoples' brain cells!

[JessEm]

I swear, cell phones MUST have some kind of radiation in them that fries peoples' brain cells!

It's less of a radiation wave, more a sort of stupidity-intensifying field. Like a microwave, only with stupid instead of heat.

[MadMike]

I can't say it's because of the cell phones. My retail days were in the late '80s, when those things didn't exist, and people still did stupid things like that.

With me, they usually liked to step out in front of me when I'm pushing a full freight cart, which can weigh as much as a small car, and then stop suddenly once they're in front of me. Then I have to grab hold of it with both hands and dig my heels into the floor to keep from hitting them.

[blas]

I used to relieve the cartboys on their breaks at the grocery store, because no other girls wanted to do it. I could only take about 10 at a time and that was it. So here I was trying to get these carts back inside, and lo and behold, oncoming traffic in the parking lot wouldn't yield to me. Idiot old people asleep at the wheel just kept toodling along, stupid mommy vans just revved up and rocketed by almost killing me, and idiot teenagers would try to show off.

[GyroKat]

lest the pweshus widdul angels run into my line of carts and get an ouchie-boo-boo on their noggins.

This literally made me laugh out loud

[draggar]

Yep, a lot of people while shopping are in their own little world and completely oblivious to what's going on in the real world. My retail days were the early to mid 90s and cll phones didn't have anywhere nearly the market penetration that they do today.

Several times I've had to sprint in front of a line of carriages, turn a U-boat / cart into a wall or even drop a pallet onto the floor (by pressing the drop lever) just to avoide serious hard to an oblivious customer.

Of course, once I customer decided to swing his car around a train of about 30 carts I was pushing into the store just so he could park right at the entrance in the fire lane (I was in the fire lane pushing the carts to the entrance). Sure enough, I couldn't avoide a collision and he lost one of his side mirrors. Management didn't care that I had no way to avoid the collision considering how the @$$hole threw his car right in front of me.

Sure enough, whenever I saw his car parked, legally or illegally, I made sure he had a long line of carriages blocking his car. (Well, they told me I needed to get in ASAP).

[Marxfan]

Once I was lugging carts back to the store, and there were a bunch of loser teenage boys sitting at one of our outdoor picnic tables and there was one stray cart I had overlooked. I couldn't just go get it, because I had a ton already. While I was trying to maneuver the carts back into the store (not particuarly brawny 18-year-old girl I was at the time), the stray cart suddenly rolled away and banged into a parked car! The asshole boys didn't even attempt to stop it, they just laughed at it and me!
No damage to the car, thank goodness, and I don't expect people to do my job for me, but an attempt to help once in a while, is that asking too much??
Don't answer that, of course it is, in the case of SC's.

[Rapscallion]

"WARGH! The British are coming!"

Thanks, but I've had enough easy ones today.

Rapscallion