Because they're assholes.

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 01/07/2020 at 11:21 • Filed to: None

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Just today, this Fb memory popped up:
“You can tell everything you need to know about a person by what they do with an empty shopping cart.”

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:28

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Why don’t people pick up their dog’s shit?

Why don’t people stop their kids from disrupting everyone else’s dining experience?

Why do people crowd all the way ahead and cut into line in traffic?

Why do people never say please or thank you?

They answer here will SHOCK you!

The Ghost of Oppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:30

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What does it say about me that I’m almost 30 and still ride the cart across the parking lot? But I do also properly put the cart where it belongs

Future next gen S2000 owner > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:31

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Title checks out.

Poor_Sh > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:31

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Pre ach!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:31

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If I’m shopping late at night, this is how I ride through the isles.

CB > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:32

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I will sail through the parking lot on a cart. 100% with you.

TRivet > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:34

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I ’m almost 30 and still ride the cart across the parking lot

For Sweden > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:36

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Because they are bad people

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:38

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Got you beat: I’m 42. =)

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/07/2020 at 11:44

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Speaking of shock, that’s why I believe we should all be allowed to carry around tazers.  You should be able to taze the people that don’t pick up after their dogs, or the parents of the bratty kids, or the people that don’t say thank you.  Life would be much better if there were consequences of getting tazed if you’re being a knob.  

Cash Rewards > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:54

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In defense, my wife was about 8 9/10ths months pregnant and just didn’t have it in her to return it. Some jackass tried to shame her as she drove away, not realizing she was pregnant. “Is that yours!?” Wife: yeah (drives off).

I always thought she should have gotten out, massively and obviously pregnant, and made that guy realize what an asshole he was being. She's a better person than me.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:57

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Agree.  This is so totally annoying.

$kaycog > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:57

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FIFY.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:58

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I always put my cart away. And, I usually take an abandoned cart from the lot into the store so the grocery peon has one less cart to deal with. 

Grindintosecond > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 11:59

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Can’t be bothered with walking a few extra steps in life. Fuck everybody. I’m first. I’m best. I only matter. Nothing matters with the world I leave behind.

Same people throw empty cans into the woods because it disappears into nothingness.

Same people burn their trash out on their farm instead of recycle. Because that’s what that is, right?

ttyymmnn > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:00

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Why do people empty their ashtrays in the parking lot?

Why do people leave dirty diapers in the parking lot?

ranwhenparked > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:00

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You know who doesn't have this problem? Aldi. Even lazy jerks want their change back. Not sure why other retailers haven't adopted that system.

Long_Voyager94 > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:02

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33, I do the same.

Usually the kids are piled in the cart or hanging off the sides as well.

We always put the cart in the return or take it back in the store though.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 12:07

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[puke]

Jim Spanfeller > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:07

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I still believe shopping cart wheelies are one of the simple joys of life.

CB > Grindintosecond 01/07/2020 at 12:08

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If it makes you feel better, on that last point, someone out here nearly lost their house because they were burning their trash in a windstorm.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:08

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I watched a cart roll a long distance in a parking lot once and strike the fender of a brand new Cadillac and pock a large dent. I was in my car and there were curbs and a lane of parking traffic between me and the impending doom awaiting the Cadillac, so there was nothing for me to do but watch the calamity unfold. (This has much to do with why the nice  cars that I drive, I pay cash for, and always less than $4,000.)

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 12:08

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You’re a good egg.

My first job was as a bagger/cart boy at a grocery store.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:10

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Also, I will take a cart from somebody who has just finished unloading, either to use it myself or to  put it in the cart park as I pass by.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Grindintosecond 01/07/2020 at 12:10

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Really love the pricks that pitch their trash into the ditch near our place...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/07/2020 at 12:12

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Ooof...

Happy New Year! Hope you and yours had a great Christmas.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 12:13

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Can you imagine what the world would be like if most people did these little kindnesses for one another?

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:16

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I try to show my boys how easy it is to do little acts of kindness throughout the day. I spent a summer working as a maintenance guy at a country club. Rich people are the worst offenders when it comes to “There’s somebody who does that for me.”

Ash78, voting early and often > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:17

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A lot of European places (Aldi comes to mind, since they’re here, too) require a deposit to unlock the cart. This is a very small incentive to ensure people return the cart, and it cuts down on their labor needs, as well. Pretty ingenious, but the world is mostly cashless now.

When I was a kid, THERE WERE NO CART CORRALS. You took the cart back to the store. For free. And even in a part of Florida populated by self-important assholes from NY and NJ, you rarely ever saw a cart in the middle of the lot.

I’m guilty of occasionally failing to return them (eg, pouring rain with the kids waiting in the car), but I always secure them on a curb or somewhere they won’t just roll away. 99% of the time, I put it back and I usually take a cart from another shopper in the parking lot.

Once it’s empty, I mean. I’m not jacking people in the Walmart parking lot.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:18

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Imagine, indeed.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 12:20

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“They have a child whom they do not want to leave unattended”

This reason really, really pisses me off. Don’t use your kid as an excuse to not do your civic duty. Not only are you creating work for someone else (and potentially damaging someone else’s property), but you are teaching the next generation to repeat your bad behavior in the future!

Have your kid help you return the cart (regardless of how young they are) and imprint the correct way to behave in society.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/07/2020 at 12:23

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I try to do the same with my kids. Even the littlest thing, like picking up a piece of trash so someone else doesn’t have to do it or it doesn’t end up along the side of road, is impactful.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:31

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Thanks. It was nice. I had a friend in hospital and spent time with him, but I was off for Christmas break, so had plenty of time for him.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:35

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I’m 45 and do this....

Long_Voyager94 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:38

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Your kid is either small enough that they’re strapped in the cart, or large enough they can walk, so the “I don’t want to leave my child unattended” is bullshit. They can easily come with you to return the cart, you’re just being a lazy douche.

shop-teacher > The Ghost of Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:46

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It says you still have joy in life!

benn454 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:46

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 Same. Everyone I saw putting a cart in the corral got a thank you from me, and I wished that the fleas of a thousand camels infested the crotch of every asshole who didn't. 

shop-teacher > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 01/07/2020 at 12:46

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LOL!  YES!!

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/07/2020 at 12:57

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As a parent of two small children, the loud bratty kids in the restaurant drives me beyond insane! Control your fucking children, you lazy pieces of shit! Do you know what I did the three times my daughter lost her shit in a restaurant? I dragged her the hell out of there, and my wife took the food to go.  Everytime I here some shit ass new age parent tell her bratty offspring, “Please stop doing that sweetie,” in that useless sing-songy tone, I want to snap a pencil and scream.

shop-teacher > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 12:58

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Or if the kids are too small to have them help, lock them in the car and walk the 30' to the cart corral.

Grindintosecond > CB 01/07/2020 at 13:21

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Almost winners of the natural selection participation trophy!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 01/07/2020 at 14:04

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Yes - they’ll survive.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/07/2020 at 14:04

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Glad you could be there for him.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 14:23

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I am too. I’ve known him for ten years, but only in the past few months did I become aware that he needed a brother and fate and Deity placed me in his path. He has pretty much nobody else in the world and it makes me tremendously sad to thing that but for the grace of Deity, he’d have gone through these three weeks alone. As it was, a social worker tried to do him like garbage but I was there to advocate for him. The entire thing is a miracle, really.

i86hotdogs > ranwhenparked 01/07/2020 at 16:11

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Aldi is one of the greatest grocery stores and I know shops there besides my father

i86hotdogs > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/07/2020 at 16:12

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Number one pet peeve right here. Actually my only pet peeve that I can think of. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/08/2020 at 03:26

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because they’re lazy

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/08/2020 at 08:59

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Wow - it really is. You’re his angel.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/08/2020 at 12:26

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No angel. Just a guy who wants to be a good dude. As I get older, I find that the men I can look up to are fewer and further between and I’m pretty much stuck with God.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/08/2020 at 12:27

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No angel, maybe, but you’ve been an angel to him, good sir.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/08/2020 at 12:31

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It is very kind of you to say so, and thank you. I can’t really think of it in terms of his benefit, only my own. This has been a huge blessing for me and my house.

bubblestheturtle > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/08/2020 at 21:30

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I pull a cart from the corral on the way in. If I can, I leave it at the store, otherwise it’s just a round trip for one cart.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > bubblestheturtle 01/09/2020 at 09:24

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Cart boys everywhere salute you.