I had to park poorly! Can you believe it? VAL straying outside the lines of a parking space? Good thing the right side of that space bordered on a striped walkway that goes next to a handicap space. So I wasn't ruining another parking space for anybody else. I HAD to park poorly, because there were CARTS in my rightful handicap parking space!
Not just one cart, or two. A whole LINE of carts, jammed together. Too heavy for Val to move. She is, you understand, not exactly spry. Lest you assume that there was no room for those carts to go, I offer the next view of the cart return area:
The entire cart return area was basically open. I've seen three columns of carts parked there before. But on this day, people only cared enough to drag their cart to the sidelines. Which might indicate that some even worse handicap-thwarter had parked a car in that space, as I saw last week.
While taking the pictures, two other cars left. How convenient that two other handicap spaces were now open. Didn't help me. I was already parked, though poorly, and it wasn't worth the effort of watching for traffic and entitled walkers while trying to back out and drive a few feet closer. T-Hoe's backup beeper hasn't worked for many years. I am paranoid about running over somebody! Especially here, where people traipse about all willy-nilly, returning carts (poorly!) and browsing the garden selections, and not controlling their rambunctious youngsters.
As I hobbled back to T-Hoe, clutching my scratchers, a lady walked in front of me and jammed her cart into that line, making it even closer to blocking T-Hoe's door when I opened it. I guess I got out of there just in time.
Alas and alack!
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DeleteWhat! She couldn't jam her cart into the other line? I'm left wondering if the wind blew those carts or if someone pushed the line of them over that way on purpose, just for kicks and giggles. If I had been with you I would have straightened them or asked inside if someone could please go out and straighten them.
ReplyDeleteThat line is more than 10 carts. It's not like a jet started up the engines next to them. No wind is blowing a line of carts. Likewise, nobody is going to push that many carts just for fun. It takes more room to move such a line of carts, as I've witnessed with the workers trying to push a line of them across the lot.
DeleteI suspect the first cart was just casually rolled over towards the door. Then the next people jammed theirs into a line. The culprits are the all the rumpusholes who jammed in their cart, seeing it would land over the line of the handicap space.
Thank you for offering to be a do-gooder with the cart debacle!
Pushing a line of carts and trying to keep them straight is hard, but someone pushing sideways near the end of a line can move the line so it is crooked. It helps if the wheels are turned instead of straight.
ReplyDeleteThey might move the front end of the line a bit, but that would not have affected this stack of carts in my parking space. The front wheels swivel, but those under the handle end are fixed. I can't image anybody scooting that end of the cart line into my space.
DeleteHappens so often. I have been unlucky in this many times.
ReplyDeleteAll that room reserved for carts, and they have to take up a handicap space! Then you also get the non-handicapped people who park in the cart space!
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