Post-it Note #10
June 30, 2009
Today, I will return my shopping cart to the corral.
And walk it over…not push it from fifteen feet. Hoping it will make it.
(Yes, I see your guilty smile.)
Because you know what happens next. Invariably, it’s going to hit some random stone or shunned penny and careen into a really nice car like an Audi A8 or BMW 6 series or special edition Range Rover.
Notice, how it won’t be the 2002 Saturn or beat up Civic with rear spoiler parked next to it. (Hat tip to Murphy.)
Then because you don’t live in LA and you have a conscience, you’ll have to leave a note which means you have to find pen and paper except you don’t really have paper only a paper towel you carried out of the Texaco bathroom one time by mistake and even though that means you’ll have to press extra hard, you think better-than-nothing and start to write and that’s when the old lady appears.
She can barely walk and is wondering why you’re writing a note on HER car on a dirty paper towel with a scratch in her bumper in the Trader Joe’s parking lot.
You try to explain but it turns out she doesn’t speak English, so it’s a whole bunch of flying arms and missed non-verbals…until she smacks you in the shins with her retractable cane.
All because you were too lazy to walk your cart to the corral.
Of course, the flip side is you could always ask for help out to your car.
And maybe, if you’re lucky, bag yourself a hot, young bagger boy.
And let him push your cart into the corral.
So to speak.
[Catch up on the rest of the post- it note series HERE.]
I made myself start returning carts about 2 years ago. Pale Rider always parks next to the corral, but at the end of the parking lot so as to reduce the amount of dings from wayward carts.
I ALWAYS return my carts! If I park too close to the front and there isn’t a corral I will even walk it back into the front of the store! Brad on the other hand, will sometimes leave them propped up against the curb so maybe he should read this post!
So to speak? Hmmmm…
My hubby and I park across the lot from the cart return, both have carts then have a VERY important competition about who can get the cart in from that distance. Pity the poor cars that park near that return.