Can someone explain why people do this?

[christopher575]

Can someone explain why people do this?, originally uploaded by christopher575.

It's especially annoying in the store's tiny aisles.

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[wring.livejournal.com]

i'd lay on the horn

[oven.livejournal.com]

maybe it's a top/bottom thing? like they gotta pull instead of pushing? really though - i have no idea.

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

Do you mean going straight down the middle? I think it's cause many people are self-absorbed jerks and/or depressed, which can make them act like self-absorbed jerks.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about walking alongside a cart and dragging it instead of getting behind it, thus taking up a bunch of extra space and blocking people.

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

This is why I try to do my food shopping at midnight, or at a local produce-y/meat market-y place that only has hand baskets, instead of carts.

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, that? I dunno!

[missdotti.livejournal.com]

If it's going down the middle of the aisle, I dunno. They probably can't pick a lane while driving.

If it's the pulling the cart instead of pushing, I only do that when I have a kid with me who insists on pushing, but I still wanna be in control (because my kids suck and cart pushing).

*chuckle*

[eskanto]

@ kids pushing carts. IKR? ;-) But they have to learn somehow.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Can't you just get behind the kid?

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

In a parking lot, I don't care. Yeah, it's annoying when it's done in a store. It's also weird when someone is pushing and their mate is in front, I don't know, steering or something.

My personal peeve is when someone parks their cart in the middle of the aisle and, instead of pushing the cart to the side, they turn the cart diagonally so no one can get through. Seriously, why?

[monsterbrain.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they walk with it next to them. WTF does it accomplish, other than keeping other people from passing you?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[gldngrrl.livejournal.com]

I am so guilty of doing that- pulling the cart along next to me. Sorry. Don't know why I do it.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Stop it!

[gldngrrl.livejournal.com]

I'M SO SORRY
***SOBS!!!***

[eskanto]

you'll have to be more specific.

I don't hog the aisle, and I loathe when others do it, but sometimes I do pull rather than push the cart.
Remember, I'm weaker than most of you, and sometimes it's just easier than pushing. XP
But I'm working on that.

Actually, if the store is crowded, I just leave the cart somewhere out of the way, and bring stuff back to it. I may be weak, but I can walk for miles. ;-D

But usually I shop with baskets or reusable bags, anyway.
I doubt I will be using the cart much when I get out there, now that I won't have a whole family to feed.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I'm not particularly strong by any means, but I never met a shopping cart I couldn't push.

Normally I just have a basket and I'm sick of people blocking the aisle by dragging around carts they're next to instead of behind.

[eskanto]

even when it's full of frozen stuff? maybe the wheels were bent or something. I recall some carts I had to drag.

FWIW, when I do, I try to stand directly in front. I really an conscious of hogging the aisle b/c I hate that too.

But again, I generally have a basket or two. Mom will chide me over the phone for not getting a cart, but she's the one who sends me for like 5 items and keeps adding stuff.

[gldngrrl.livejournal.com]

I also try to park the cart out of the way and then go hunting/gathering down the aisle, returning my spoils to the cart waiting for me.

And OMG can I fill a cart +more! (family of 5+ counting random teenagers who pass through)

*chuckle*

[eskanto]

yeah, you have me beat. There's just 4 of us. We seem to make more trips rather than loading up in one visit, though. Seems like I"m always buying groceries.

[tehjakers.livejournal.com]

why someone takes a safeway cart and takes up EVERY AVAILABLE SPACE?

I don't know.

[ozgryph.livejournal.com]

I'm guilty of doing that. I have a rather long stride and oftentimes my forward foot will hit the little basket-thingie on the bottom.

So I sort of guide the trolley from the side a lot of the time.

[pixink.livejournal.com]

People do this a lot at Trader Joe's, and it makes me want to choke them, because TJ's has such narrow aisles.

[mika-says.livejournal.com]

Because people don't notice or ever consider that other people live in the world around them and they only care about themselves. OR
Because people like taking up as much space as possible because it makes them feel important and dominant. I dunno. I hate people mostly.