On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:43:32 -0700, "The Ranger"
> wrote:

>Steve Pope > wrote in message
...
>> In article >, Andy <q>
>> wrote:
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
>>> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
>> Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
>> the store?
>
>I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
>I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
>lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...
>
When I was a kid working in a grocery store, we hated the people who
returned the carts. For kids like me it was heaven to get outside for
a few minutes and pick up the carts, even in the rain. It was a few
minutes of peace and quiet and a chance to get away from the old
purple-haired women who bitched and whined and people who dropped
produce and left it in the floor to be stepped on and people who
dropped bottles of stuff we had to mop up, and people who couldn't
find the Wheaties they were standing next to, and people who walked
out of the store and left carts full of stuff we had to put back into
stock. And stocking is the most boring job in the world, and cleaning
the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest. We used
to fight each other for the right to go out and pick up carts, and
once we got outside we took our sweet time getting back in. I bet that
hasn't changed one bit. In fact, at Wal-Mart, where they use the
electric cart pushers, I see them making a game of it, to see how long
a line of carts they can string together. They'll go all the way
across the parking lot to fetch a single cart and roll it all the way
back to add it to the cart string. Good for them. I can relate.