Do You Always Choose the Shopping Trolley (Cart) with a Bad Wheel?

Sounds like a good plan, jimbo, letting the good lady wife decide how to fill, why you pay the bill.

Do you go all the way back to the trolley corral, nonew3, or to you look for a moment of opportunity to swipe one out in the aisles?

I usually do the quick and secret aisle shopping trolley/cart swipe when no one is looking, make a fast getaway, and look as if nothing is going on.

I try not to be too conspicuous, lest I be caught by the invisible shopping trolley police, or by someone who really was using that empty trolley but had left it alone for a second while tending to some shopping.

If you hear "Hey, that's my trolley!!! Give me back my trolley, you wretched trolley snatcher!!!" that's me doing my deed.

It gives me great satisfaction to say this, nownew3: "You are under arrest for your trolly snatching ways." You see, I am a trolly patrol person, and I started this whole Discussion to flush out miscreants like you.

Of course, I do not know where you live, but I will find you, oh yes, I shall do my job. The next time you're practicing your particular brand of social chaos, I dare say that you will be looking over your shoulder in fear....

Oh no! The shopping trolley police! ARGH!

I'm afraid now...very afraid...yep, afraid...afraid, indeed...

What is the punishment for this crime? Life in prison without parole?

Life in shopping with a cart that consists of one wobbly wheel, one wheel that won't spin at all, one wheel that refuses to allow you to turn, and one squeeky wheel that announcs to the world (like the scarlet letter) that you are a shopping cart scoundrel.

The next time you see someone driving a cart like the one I just mentioned, you will now know why they drive it, nonew3 -- they got busted! (Yes, I also drive one of those.)

Ah! Then you are also a convicted trolley-stealing scoundrel?

You said you don't know where I live. I am in Washington state, USA.

And, there are LOTS Of shopping cart users in this state. So, it would be tough figuring out which one is me.

Not so difficult as you might imagine, nonew3. You see, all I have to do is visit every store and listen for the person without a wobbling, noisy cart, and then I can deduce that it must be you, or at least someone who is guilty, as every single other cart being pushed around that store probably belongs in the landfill. If a person has a decent cart, they have to be up to something.

They would have to be co-conspirators in the great shopping cart conspiracy.

Indeed. You have provided yet another clue to your organization, nonew3. You may want to consider going into hiding, as I'm onto you now.

I'm not a co-conspirator. I'm just an average cart thief. I just happen to have heard about the conspiracy.

I guess that makes me guilty by association.

I suspect that the people who work in places that have shopping carts like to keep one bad one on hand, and make wagers as to who will get it, and how long they will keep it before ditching it, mamasan34.

If they removed the bad shopping cart, that would be more expense for the store, and less profits. Heck, if that shopping cart will still cart stuff, even it is held together by mere duct tape and Elmer's glue, why waste the money for a new one?

Yes, those wobbly ones are annoying, Calais. Plus the racket they make is embarassing.

I dont mind the racket at all, it can draw attention though, its just the wobbly bits that I dont like.

If a shopping cart creates a lot of noisy racket, just whistle, sing, or hum louder than the cart. No one will notice the noise of the cart. Problem solved.

I can't believe that you brought up The Home Depot, DeaXyza! I was in there the other day, and I got a trolley with two bad wheels on the left side! No matter how hard I tried not to, I could only walk in circles! I was in there for hours, walking in circles, before a friend of mine noticed what had happened to me and rescued me. Those things can be quite sneaky.

Trans after reading the whole post I feel majority of the people get only bad trolleys.... hence I feel it is a big conspiracy by the stores not to have any good carts at all! what say you?

I am in complete agreement, DeaXyza, and I applaud your ability to cut right to the heart of the matter. A conspiracy is the only logical explanation.

How about let's call the nightly TV news about this matter? Or, better yet, the tabloids?

This is a juicy topic. Everyone loves a conspiracy theory.

I can identify with those same experiences, ricknkae. Thanks!:)

What a great strategy, teapotmommommerced! Perhaps I should go into stores with the attitude of choosing the most annoying shopping cart that I could possibly find, then I would probably get stuck with a proper working one. But what fun would that be?

Hehe, I hate those that lull you into a false sense of security, ItTakesAllSorts. They are their own particular brand of evil.

May I advise all shoppers? It might be a good idea to wear thick protective padding around the ankles when shopping due to the epidemic of shopping trolley/cart injuries. It might look funny, but so does bruising and bleeding from the ankles.

A thick wool sock tied around each ankle would suffice.

That is exactly what they are thinking, lecanis, you poor, poor girl.:)

Yes, those are the tricky little b@stards of the shopping cart world, emeraldisle. Going to the market is much like a visit to a used car lot. You just don't know what you're getting until it's too late.

heheh that is a good comparision really. I have had way too many of those. Let alone when you add in the ones with the wobbly wheel, the one that doesn't go that way until you have half the cart full. It's very irritating.