I handle my cart at the grocery is if I’m driving my car. What about you?

It always amazes me that people come to the store in their cars with all the skills of giving way at intersections, parking neatly, checking as they back out and so on yet put them behind a shopping cart and they become totally careless of the rules of the road and other traffic. Have you ever seen anyone making turn signals when pushing a shopping cart? Do people ever look behind them before stopping suddenly at a display? and only occasionally will you see someone park up neatly to allow room for oncoming traffic! Oh! .... then there are those who drive around in their own little world using a live shopping list from their loved one at home while she checks the store cupboards with him over the mobile phone. "I'm just by the TP now, love. Do we need more TP? ... What kind of olives shall I get? There's kalamata and those green ones with anchovy ... you don't like anchovy? I never knew! ... just as well I called, then ... oh, do we need bread? ... the avocados look good ..." Now, when I take a cart from the stack, I always check that it's free running ... nothing I hate more than a wobbly wheel. I generally have to try at least three before I find one I like. Then I take out of my pocket my detachable turn signals and a couple of wing mirrors. I did consider getting an orange flashing light for when I'm in a hurry but the floor cleaners have those and I don't want to look like staff! I attach my shopping list to the clip-board on the dash and check that I have it the right way up. I have a map of the store on my computer and I print it out and mark on it where everything is before I start out. Red arrows show me the optimum route. Bvrrm... bvrrm ... ready for the off! Through the automatic starting gate we go with loud motor noises and appropriate changes of gear ... I find that this helps quite a bit. It warns other users that I am coming and, although I do get some funny stares, they do tend to keep well out of the way.

I basically do the same thing. As of lately I don't bother with a shopping list and I try my best to get my grocery shopping done quickly. Depending on what store I go to and how crowded it is I can get in and out of the store within 20 to 30 minutes. It does bother me that some people don't care where they park their carts and it makes it even worse when they are yapping it up with someone they know causing the aisle to be even more blocked up. However there was a scary incident that I saw similar to road rage, right in a Wal-Mart supercenter. Apparently one person had moved another person's cart out of the way and they were arguing about the whole thing. How dumb is that? I had half a mind to report what I saw, but figured it would be pretty useless. It's Wal-Mart after all. Need I say more? I don't touch someone else's cart, even if it is blocking the aisle, but rather wait until I get their attention. Sure it can be irritating to say the least, but it is better than stirring up a fight.

I rarely go 'driving' in a supermarket but when I do it is usually to the booze section as I am on a liquid diet! haha If a cart is badly parked then I 'bulldoze' it down the isle till the owner shouts. Then I say 'Oh, I'm terribly sorry. It was in the middle and blocking everything I assumed it was abandoned' I think the message will get through.

I push my cart as I would drive a car. I stay on one side of the isle, if I am stopping, I oull off to the side so I don'y block traffic, and I try to be organized when I go. I can't say that I shop fast though because I am a coupon shopper and I tend to look through my coupons as I am shopping. That takes a little while, but the savings makes it worth it to me.

Yes I handle it as if it where my car. I am very careful of others and what I am doing with my cart at all times.

I also usually handle my cart as if it is a car. Problem is that sometimes i also pretend that its a racecar. But ive never crashed:). I have a great cart driving record.

you are right,not making a grocery list would mean a considerable loss and waste of time.as for other inconvieniences,i cannot do anything about it other than honking,thats one way in which i let out my irritation.

If you are doing this then it is good. By doing this you are communicating this message to other socity that follow you for good social environment. Overall you are unique in yourself.

I never take my hands off the cart, and I drive it like a race car. That ticks off my wife, but it's never in anybody's way, and i'm in and out of an aisle faster than a racecar can complete one lap!

There are many things that aggravate me when I go shopping and you have definitely hit upon a few. There are those who think the world revolves around them and only them as they hog the aisles, with their children acting as holy terrors while they act totally unaware. The children are tearing open packages and leaving sticky messes every where (which we have to pay for in increased prices). They casually read labels and yap on their cell phones blocking the aisle and then there is another hot rodder coming up the aisle knicking your ankles with their cart. I avoid large stores like Meijer during busy times for just this reason. After a ten hour work day who wants to be subjected to this??!!

I 100 percent agree with you! I consider it a common courtesy to park your cart out of the way when you stop and walk as far to the side as possible. I get extremly annoyed when people don't abide by the same common courtesy's I do. I have a tendency to take things into my own hands. If there's a cart in my way and after waiting a minute for the person to move they don't I simply move it out the way myself.

same same here my frined. i hated those people who cant respect others, who just park their carts everywhere and delaying others on what they must have to do... im also a fast shopper., ill go by aisle to see what i need and dont want to delay others by not parkling my cart wherein i cant be an obstacle in their paths... hope they had that in mind too... to avoid delaying anyone and everyone.

same sam here my friend... ihate to be delayed that why i dont want to delay others on their grocery... ihope they can also put that in their minds...