Meijer has one hitch
Facking car grocery carts
Curse the inventor
Oh you KNOW the carts I’m talking about (buggies to my Southern readers!…how ya’ll doing? Enjoying your warm weather, are you while I’m suffering here in the PERMAFROST?)
It’s bad enough taking two kids grocery shopping. What makes it worse is trying to get a limp-noodle-screaming-banshee into a real cart after he’s seen one of those car carts. It’s an understatement to say that ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.
I imagine that a very well meaning person (probably a MAN *ahem*) designed a car cart thinking, “THIS is a brilliant idea that will make shopping with kids FUN! and EASY!”
In a word, NO. In two words, FACK NO.
Firstly they are impossible to steer. Displays, other customers, food on shelves, ANYTHING AT ALL in the store is likely to be creamed by a rogue, out of control car cart. Secondly, they aren’t even a full size basket, so once you’ve put one kid in the seat and the other in the basket part, you now have room to buy lipstick and a greeting card. Lipstick and a greeting card WON’T FEED THE FAMILY.
So to conclude this tirade, I think we should write our congressmen about the very important issue of eradicating car carts from grocery stores across the nation. Sure we have other “important” issues like baseball players doing steroids and a Presidential election, but SURELY our congressmen would see the necessity of legislation banning car carts.
Who’s with me?
*crickets chirping*
AMEN!
They are AWFUL!!! Temper tantrum machines for mommies!
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amazingly, our carts are always “out of order” or “need to be charged” or I “don’t have a dollar” or “we need too much stuff” or maybe they’ll “work next time”!
hope those help. those carts are the work of the devil. like I need anything slowing me down in my already packed and slow grocery store that I didn’t want to take the kids to anyway!
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Ohhellzya. I love this. I think of it EVERY FUCKING DAY. (I end up at the grocery store a lot. I can’t help it. I dunno why this happens)
And, you’re going to BlogHer, right? And you are looking for a roomie, right?! RIGHT?!?!
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I haven’t had to deal with the trauma that is car carts yet…my little one is only eight months old. But I know the time is coming.
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more importantly, why don’t they make them big enough for me to sit in? Not fair that the kids get all the fun. I want to see a cart (we call them trolley’s here in Oz) big enough for a mum to sit in while the kids push it. With a drinks tray to hold my margarita.
Is that too much to ask? Just to make shopping that little bit more bearable?
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I always had such mixed feelings about those carts…and now I look at them and think my guys are too big for them. Snif.
On that note, I have to run upstairs and change for the elder son’s soccer game because what I am wearing now will make be boil. If I could send you some of this, I would.
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Or the worst is one grocery store that I no longer patronize has 5 carts kids carts–3 pink butterfly ones and 2 blue pickups. Of course my kids would rather be caught dead then in a pink cart and the blue pickups are so thrashed and covered with flu germs it is like driving a petri dish…ya, and 3 kids don’t fit in those carts AT ALL. And then there is the parking lot stalking of people leaving the store with the proper cart…so creeeeeeepy!
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Oscar now gets visibly upset when we pull into the parking lot of the grocery store that DOESN’T have car carts.
i will sign your petition.
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I didn’t realize that I’d be signing a petition.
:>)
Hard to steer and two kids cannot get along side by side in them, so then you end up pushing and out of control cart while holding one of your children.
Hate them!
What I love is free cookies and free child care at the grocery store. Although it’s not really free when you consider how much the food costs at the child care offering stores.
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We thankfully have nothing like that here, heck i can not imagine going shopping without DH . Definetly a two person job about here
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Okay, I lie; they are ALWAYS broken, I tell the kids. Thankfully they are mostly old enough to NOT want to get them. And I won’t allow them to ever get the little tiny carts; what happens is the baby sits in it while the 8 year old careens around the store and I end up paying for spaghetti sauce that I don’t actually get to HAVE because it is broken and splashed all over the floor.
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I gguess I’m in the minority – I do not share the hatred of car carts.
Those mini carts though! Holy Hell! Whose brilliant idea was it to let a 3-year-old careen a cart through a crowded grocery store? Sadly, my kids will never know the joy of a mini cart.
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Right. Plus half the time there aren’t any left, so you have to use the regular cart, which means that your kid screams every time you pass one of the trucks/cars inside the supermarket.
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