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to wish everyon would leave their trolleys back?

37 replies

shellio · 27/07/2010 23:09

Today saw a woman look all round to see if anyone saw her (me, but to far away to shout at her)! and proceed to leave her trolley beside her car and drive off. FFS leave trolleys back and stop leaving them at your backside you lazy bollocks!! They are littered everywhere at my local supermarkets. Rant over!!

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MaureenMLove · 27/07/2010 23:10

See, I'm too tight to do that. I want my pound back!

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/07/2010 23:16

People take their trolleys back if they are the type that you need a pound in to free them. Otherwise, they get left all over by lazy gits. They even have little areas dotted over the car park so it's not like - shock horror - you have to take them all the way back to the store!!!!

It's yet another example of not giving a crap or a moment's thought to those around you.

The trolleys need to be rounded up - not your problem. Someone has to go find a trolley before they can do their shopping - not your problem. The wind whips up, and your trolley - cos it's on wheels - slams into the side of someone's car because you just left it in the middle of the car park - not your problem.

Me me me me me. All that matters is me. I need give no consideration, courtesy or thought to anyone around me.

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shellio · 27/07/2010 23:40

Yes i saw so many lying around yesterday it was unbelievable.There are ALOT of thoughtless people around. Maybe they think it is beneath them to put their trolley back.

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Honeydragon · 27/07/2010 23:52

I got shouted at

The wheel had buckled and broke on the way to the car and I managed to pull it on to the path near the trolly park, but struggle as it was windy I didn't want to leave it but it was a bugger to move with out lifting it. (I was very pregnant at the time). I was struggling to work out how to leave it safely by a bollard (was worried it could still spin if wind caught the right direction) and go back to ask someone to help me move it when a man got out his car and yelled at me - saying I was only metres from the trolley stand and that I was a lazy cow and walked off.

By the time I got to the store I was sobbing, got some help and the shitty bastard saw exactly what had been going on as he followed us out the bloody store and didn't have the grace to apolygise even though he earwigged the whole conversation.

I was gutted this happend as normally I am the saddo who brings a few extra trolley back with her when they are not left by the store rather than just walk off and get the one for myself.

So uanbu as if everyone put them back he might have stopped worrying about his car getting hit and wondered why I was leaving it there. Instead of making me go all snotty and red in Tesco.

Galena · 28/07/2010 10:12

I feel your pain, but I actually quite appreciate it when there are trolleys left near the Parent and Child spaces as otherwise I have to lug DD, change bag and shopping bags over to the trolley park, pull out a few trolleys (the first one is generally stuck in the second, or doesn't have safety straps or something), wrestle the whole jolly lot into the trolley. If there's one left by the P&C spaces, it's generally on its own, so not stuck, it generally has safety straps, etc. Also I can put the bags in while DD is still in her car seat and then get her out.

When it comes to putting them back, I leave them there too, partly so someone else can use it, and partly because again it's a juggling act with DD or I have to leave her in the car at which point she'll scream till she's sick!

So YABslightlyU

Chil1234 · 28/07/2010 10:33

YANBU... It's that old-fashioned thing we used to specialise in called 'politeness'. Consideration for other people. The little bits of social glue that keep everything together nicely. Falls into the same bracket as not parking in the disabled spaces, holding a door open for someone with a buggy, replacing the loo roll rather than leaving the empty cardboard tube....

Jasonthunderpants · 28/07/2010 14:21

society is going to hell,this is just the thin end of the wedge
On the news this morning was an article about dog owners not cleaning up the poo left behind by their dogs
What gets me is the bozos who put the poo in a little bag then tie a not in the bag and leave it on the pavement
people have no respect for others around them

AAAArgh I cannot do with ignorant people

sapphireblue · 28/07/2010 14:24

Jason you are obsessed with poo. It isn't healthy.

Jasonthunderpants · 28/07/2010 14:26

Not it isnt especially when it is under your shoe and you trail it in the house

I have renamed my brothers street as Dog shit alley because of the amount of poo on it

PlumBumMum · 28/07/2010 14:27

YABU

I do leave my trolley back and I hate them not being put back (don't want my car getting a dent) BUT what about the poor trolley boys they would be out of a job!

Rockbird · 28/07/2010 14:31

I'm with Galena, I actually tut when I pull into a (P&T) space and there isn't a trolley nearby, it makes my life so much easier.

Rosedee · 28/07/2010 18:09

Aibu or does " leave your trolley back " back no sense? But no not unreasonable it doesn't take a minute to take them back.

Rosedee · 28/07/2010 18:10

Doh make no sense? Sorry

HecateQueenOfWitches · 28/07/2010 18:13

No, it doesn't. But we all knew what she meant, so it didn't matter.

SugarSpike · 28/07/2010 18:21

YANBU, its just common courtesy to put the trolley back in the bays there's enough of them, what really bugs me is when people dont slot the trolleys together, the ones where you have to get your pound/token back, the amount of times someone has slotted the coin thing in with the trolley facing the opposite direction so I cant slot mine in!!!!! now thats bloody annoying when you have to drag your trolley and child to the next closest bay!!

crunchbag · 28/07/2010 18:22

At our local supermarket the place where you find the most abandoned trolley is the P&C parking area. It's also where the pedestrian entrance is thus making the footpath into an obstacle course. There are trolley parks at both sides of the area, no need to walk further than 5 cars. Talk about laziness.

So no YANBU

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shellio · 28/07/2010 23:06

Crunchbag i agree P&C is the worst! Its no excuse to dump your trolley if you park there. Especially as you have to walk like two steps to put it back where you got it

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Fimbo · 28/07/2010 23:13

Sorry don't get the bit about it being easier with a child if the trolley is there when you drive in/out of the space. You load the boot, shut it, take the trolley back with the child still in it and then get them out and back to the car. No argument will make me see this point any differently unless of course you are a disabled mother.

Galena · 29/07/2010 07:48

So while I'm unloading my trolley I leave my DD in it so that if it rolls away it rolls her into the road? She's the first thing I unload so I put her in her carseat, unload my shopping, and then get her back out of the car? I know I COULD take it back, but I assumed other people were like me - i.e. appreciated having a trolley ready to hand when they arrive.

I also described why it was easier if there was one there when I arrived above.

I guess this is the sort of thing which people will never agree on. I have my view - and I have never seen a trolley blown into a car once it was stationary and out of the way. Other people have their view.

StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2010 07:53

Fimbo I know you wont be convinced but DD is the first thing i unload so she is not in the trolley while i'm faffing abou unloading it. seems a fairly obvious safety step to me.

Rockbird · 29/07/2010 07:54

Don't worry Galena, I'll back you up against these strange people I love a trolley left by the p&t spaces. Not so wild about them anywhere else but very useful there.

runnybottom · 29/07/2010 09:24

"Sorry don't get the bit about it being easier with a child if the trolley is there when you drive in/out of the space. You load the boot, shut it, take the trolley back with the child still in it and then get them out and back to the car. No argument will make me see this point any differently unless of course you are a disabled mother."

Only have the one child huh?

Fimbo · 29/07/2010 10:58

No Runnybottom I have two. Trolleys with child seats have brakes on them. Nine times out of ten you can't get down the pedestrian walkway of our local Tesco for the amount of trolleys left there by selfish people, when the trolley bay is about a foot away.

I like you am entitled to my opinion.

crunchbag · 29/07/2010 11:04

Child is in car seat so where is the problem in putting the trolley back in the bay?

NicknameInUse · 29/07/2010 11:08

"I have never seen a trolley blown into a car once it was stationary and out of the way"

But you won't leave your child in the pram whilst you're standing right there? It's ok to leave it where ever you like once you're done with it, but is dangerous only if your child is in it?

You're clearly right, we'll never agree on that one! I'm with 'the others', it's lazy and selfish - everyone else manages just fine, it just seems to be a handful of people that find it just too difficult.

Though, I did lol at "BUT what about the poor trolley boys they would be out of a job!" PlumBumMum! That's why I throw my litter all over the streets, just thinking of those poor street cleaners. Call it my civil duty.