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.

[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).

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.