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What kind of twat just abandons their trolleys in parking spaces?

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1crazyyear · 07/07/2019 10:41

I'm in Tesco car park. Three bays here in different parts of car park are blocked by trolleys just abandoned behind shoppers' cars. There are loads of trolley bays throughout.

It's infuriating - a bit of drizzle after some sun and everyone is too special to put their trolleys back?! I'll move the one in front of me even though heaven forbid my toddler and I will get a bit rained on

I know it's a small thing but I've had a frustrating morning and it's so symptomatic of the nonsense people think is ok!

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DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 07/07/2019 11:58

Because they are lazy twats.

Abra1de · 07/07/2019 12:00

Just leave the child in the locked car in a car seat for the seconds it takes to return the trolley. Even in the biggest carpark it won’t take long.

Sparklesocks · 07/07/2019 12:01

Laziness

outreach29 · 07/07/2019 12:12

I'm stressed about other more serious things and I probably just wanted attention on mumsnet when posting though!

@1crazyyear I hear you sister! This is me today too - venting spleen about stupid stuff as have real difficulties in real life that can't be solved immediately if at all. Sad

makingmammaries · 07/07/2019 13:37

I was going to say something about people who think having a child exempts them from normal courtesy.

But I’ll just say this: put the fecking trolley away.

fuzzyduck1 · 07/07/2019 13:39

The trolly bays are just another way of cutting jobs “like self service tills”
When I was younger I worked at a supermarket. And some of the jobs I done there was collecting trollies from the car park and bring them back into the store there were at least 2 people doing this all day.
One of the other jobs was packing peoples bags for them. Each till use to gave 2 people on it one cashier one packer that has now changed to 1 cashier looking after 10 tills. And you do all the work.

I always find it funny when a cashier offers to help me pack my bags as I had to sit through a 3 hour trading course on how to do it back in the day so I’m probably more qualified than they are in this task.

VampirateQueen · 07/07/2019 13:43

Sorry but I have 2 young kids, 2 bad knees and a bad back, I have still never left a trolley. It is lazy and just because it makes your life that little bit easier doesn't mean it is ok to make someone else's life harder.

Strawberrypancakes · 07/07/2019 13:45

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Geminijes · 07/07/2019 13:46

The people who do this are selfish and lazy.

It's convenient for them not to put the trolley back into a trolley bay but they don't care how inconvenient it is for other people to have to move the trolley. It's all about them!

Their attitude....as long as I'm alright, I don't give a toss about anyone else.

Trolleys quite often roll about into other cars scratching them but again, people don't care.

SachaStark · 07/07/2019 13:47

At my nearest supermarket, there is one centre walkway through the whole car park: the P+C bays are at the end of this walkway, leading up to the entrance of the shop. It’s shocking how many trollies litter the walkway on a regular basis. Like a bloody obstacle course.

And the trolley bays ARE RIGHT NEXT TO the walkway, on both sides! Many of them dotted along the walkway. So a distance of less than ten metres, no matter where you are parked.

Absolute laziness.

trackingmedown · 07/07/2019 13:48

I am also that twat. (this is like Spartacus). I used to work in a supermarket and one of my favourite jobs was being sent to round up abandoned trolleys. It was peaceful and I got to walk around outside instead of being stuck indoors. I see it as job creation.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 07/07/2019 14:00

I do ! It's me !

I tour the country leaving shopping trolleys in car park spaces. Any one fancy joining me ?

I sometimes take the trolley that has been thoughtfully placed in the bay I'm parking next to. I like to return the favour.

To people who have the time to get upset about this: GET A LIFE.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 07/07/2019 14:04

I was going to say something about people who think having a child exempts them from normal courtesy.

They do. 'Diplomatic immunity children.' As I once heard a parent I'm related too remark.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 07/07/2019 14:07

Just leave the child in the locked car in a car seat for the seconds it takes to return the trolley.

Really ?

This one goes out to all the missing children in the world.....

Sorry your parent valued the shopping trolley and not being thought of as selfish more than they valued the now missing child. It only takes a seconds' inattention.

SachaStark · 07/07/2019 14:10

How many babies have actually gone missing from locked cars in the middle of a busy supermarket car park in the thirty seconds in which their parent has gone to return the trolley?

melissasummerfield · 07/07/2019 14:10

ToEarlyForDecorations What?

HereForAdvice2019 · 07/07/2019 14:16

I've once done this
It was at tesco late at night. Returning tovcar some undesirable lads were bent down by my tyresb. I confronted them and they have me shit made out they could see it was going down. (knew it wasn't as that's one thing I keep. on top of)
i packed the stuff in my car and one cheeky fucker was looking through my passenger window as I shut boot. I was no way walking to the bay and back. I just got in car and drove off. told dp and he checked car. my dust cap had been removed

2 days later a fb post circulated about some. lads grabbing women's handbags that night in that store telling them they had a flat tyre and when they showed the poor woman the other one was looking for her bag which happened to be on the seat

Glad I trusted my instincts.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 07/07/2019 14:18

How many babies have actually gone missing from locked cars in the middle of a busy supermarket car park in the thirty seconds in which their parent has gone to return the trolley?

Bingo ! Three minutes and 59 seconds for the response.

None. Until the first one.

SachaStark · 07/07/2019 14:20

What? You are making no sense, @ToEarlyForDecorations

ToEarlyForDecorations · 07/07/2019 14:50

I can't make it any plainer just for your to not understand it all over again.

supadupapupascupa · 07/07/2019 15:07

Actually I used to like in our local Tesco when someone left a trolley at the back of the parent child spaces. Very handy! But those spaces backed into trees and bushes so they wouldn't roll off anywhere

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 07/07/2019 15:13

Oh I totally agree @ToEarlyForDecorations I don't don't drive at night because of the danger of being caught in a gang war shooting. It happens in other countries but doesn't really happen here. But I could be the first one, right? Hmm

For those who dump trollies, good for you. I sincerely hope that one day a stray trolley takes a chunk out of your paintwork though.

LakieLady · 07/07/2019 15:14

And the bad knee is a shit excuse

Easy to say when it's not your bad knee! Every step was agony for me this week.

I still put my trolley back though, but I park as near to a trolley bay as I can, and have the luxury of not having to do supermarket shopping at peak times.

icanthelpyou · 07/07/2019 15:39

Can't believe the moronic excuses on here. Put away your trolley lazy person.

Pleasebeafleabite · 07/07/2019 15:46

I’ve done it in the pissing down rain

Our local sainsbo just redid the car park and there’s half the trolley parks there were before. It’s their design fault imho

I wouldn’t do it on a windy day in case the trolley blew into someone’s car

I slso just push it over the hump into the trolley park rather than stacking it.

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