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    So, Hoss and I go out to take care of carts early in the afternoon, so we're stocked inside for the rest of the evening until we have to stock them up before we close. As per usual, we round up the two older red plastic carts to use as "stabilizers" on our cart train, so it doesn't serpentine all over the lot.

    Hoss and I guard those red carts like crazy while we're doing carts. When we finish up, we stack them on the front of the cart-pusher, and stash the stack in the pusher's storage space, which at the moment is behind a table stocked up with a watch roadshow display.

    In the interim, I'm covering a break on the door for a while, and I see a woman leaving with one of the red carts. There were still plenty of carts not ten feet away, perfectly capable of being used, and far easier to get to, rather than moving the watch roadshow table out of the way and then moving it back into place, just to get one of those red carts.

    It didn't help that Hoss and I couldn't find it out in the parking lot later. We ended up guessing she'd gone over to Wally World or Tarjhey with it. (We were wrong, someone else took it and went inside with it.) It was just a little irritant to an otherwise ordinary Wednesday.
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    Are the red ones smaller or something? I'll go out of my way to get the smaller carts at a couple of stores here (we call them 'baby carts') because they're lighter and easier to push, plus the smaller the cart, the less likely I am to fill it up with stuff I don't really need.
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    • #3
      Quoth MoonCat View Post
      Are the red ones smaller or something? I'll go out of my way to get the smaller carts at a couple of stores here (we call them 'baby carts') because they're lighter and easier to push, plus the smaller the cart, the less likely I am to fill it up with stuff I don't really need.
      The red carts are the same size as the regular carts. The only functional difference to most customers is that the red carts are plastic, while the regular ones are metal. The red ones' wheels also remain on the ground when stacked up on a train, whereas with the regular carts, the only wheels that end up on the ground on the train are the two front wheels of the frontmost cart and the two back wheels of the rearmost cart. Which causes the train of carts to serpentine when pushing it. The red carts, spaced through the train, 'ground' it and keep it from serpentining all over the lot.
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      • #4
        Quoth MoonCat View Post
        Are the red ones smaller or something?
        No, they're faster!

        It's like cars - everyone knows that the red ones are faster!
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        • #5
          Quoth Marmalady View Post
          No, they're faster!

          It's like cars - everyone knows that the red ones are faster!
          paints it red, make it go fasta wit de dakka dakkas?

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          • #6
            There's Never Enuff Dakka!

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            • #7
              Alwayz moar dakka!
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              • #8
                Only Gork 'n Mork Know wut Enuff Dakka Iz! Now get in dere ya nobs and start crackin' hedz!

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