Shitty urban design breeds shitty solutions
This is why I hate carsEveryone in here shitting on the dude, but you know what? I'm gonna give him a pass. Sure he's lazy but he's thoughtful.
Yeah this is my thinking; If it’s a trek to put the trolley back, then most people won’t even bother
People won’t even bother when it’s 3 spots away!
I’ll forgive them especially if it turns out they have a disability or physically struggle more, figured it’s more difficult to return the traditional way and they came up with this idea. I’ll give it to them, this is much better.
I'm disabled. Not for my knee, but it does go out sometimes. I'll ride the trolley if there's a hill yesiree bob. Save my knee the pain and get there faster why not. I'm always glad they never did anything to make it so you can't ride the cart across the lot
I'm not disabled and I will still absolutely ride the cart to the cart station or even in the store if it's clear... life is supposed to be fun!
We should book up lol
This was my thought process. Alot of people just leave their carts in the middle of lots like assholes but homie was minding his own business and made sure he was doing his part in not trashing the lot. Good for him.
I mean, seems like if this dude found this needed, they need more cart returns. Yes, he could walk but I usually park near returns as some time they are lanes over and with no cuts in the parking so you have to walk all the way around if people parked close to eachother.
I honestly feel like this would take more work than just walking it back. This looks genuinely harder.
I'm going to try this now, you know I am. I have to
And honestly... The skill 🤣🤣🤣
And the cart got nested so definitely better than most!
I also appreciate the effort despite the terminal laziness
Cart Narc would approve
The driver is in fact not a lazy bones!
fuckcarts
its in canada, most people here generally do
Not true. I constantly see carts laying all over the place. I also worked as a cart collector for Costco when I was younger.
I always park right next to the cart return.
I knew some people back in highschool who would do something similar.
They'd get going much faster and then release the cart so it obliterated people's mailboxes.
We'd do it with the concrete light pillars in mall parking lots. We did a lot of insane things for shits and giggles.
We always aimed them for the parking stops/landscaping curbs to see how much air time they'd catch.
It was always disappointing when the cart would do a lame-assed endo after sending it into one of those parking curbs. The light posts would always provide destruction.
The driver also required good timing to veer off and keep the cart from hitting the car. It was like driver training!
Definitely some memories that involved skitching with the cart as well.
Clinical walkphobia.
"Why are Americans so fat? Must solely be dietary. Anyway, omw to drive to the fucking cart return, gotta keep my daily step count under 100. It's fine, I'll go to the gym to make up for it. Maybe."
Yep this. I became very ill for a long time and switched from a walking lifestyle to a car-driven and more home-based one. I gained a lot of weight.
Everyone keeps pointing at photos of Americans in the 1930s and such as thin and cool. Meanwhile this is what 1930s Chicago looked like for example, it was a pubic trans and walkable city primarily. The other issue is food science making addictive foods designed to be addictive as possible to maximize profit, but the other issues are still valid. On to of things like ED’s, etc. but for the average person an extra hour of walking a day could be life changing.
Back then the majority of the country worked a physical job that usually burned a fair bit of calories, either walked to work or took public transit like street cars which still involved walking, and ate less calories because food was expensive and basic. Now everybody drives everywhere, a huge portion of our population no longer works physical jobs instead working ones that are more sedentary but that are now incredibly stressful which plays a role physically and in our desire to eat, and somehow unhealthy addictive death foods are the norm while people struggle to have time to cook because they are working so many hours and have to commute so long.
Tbf there was a large professional class that worked in office buildings even then.
This is in Canada.
It says it’s Canada tho?
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Don't you realize that the human body is like a battery, with only a finite amount of energy? Exercise will only deplete you!
tbf i'd avoid walking through parking lots whenever I can. too fucking scary with cars surronding your every direction lmao.
Only Canada is car centric and courteous enough to do something like this.
i mean... at least they returned the cart and given the unique technique, seems to do it in a safe/courteous way, so... at least we got that going for us.
modern problems require modern solutions.
I'm not so sure about the "safe" part.
I can’t believe people are so lazy to walk a few steps
I see it every time I go to Costco. There's one line of parking that makes it really easy to load your groceries, but there's no cart return right there (it's about 50 yards away.)
These people walk a mile inside Costco buying all their giant bags of potato chips, but then can't possibly be bothered to walk 100 feet to return their carts, so they leave them in the middle of the sidewalk.
they in a hurry to get to the gym... them tread mills book up fast!
"Honey, how did you get all these paint scratches on your door?"
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who return their carts and those who just drive away.
*watches video*
There are three kinds of people...
What’s saying more about car-dependent society and sedentary lifestyle than being a total lazy asshat strolling a shopping cart from inside a car through the soulless strip mall?
You ever worked retail? You ever been the guy that has to go get the carts in no man’s land on the side other side of the lot?
I think myself, and every other retail person would give this guy a standing ovation and a medal.
Yes I worked at Walmart and I hear this ridiculous rationale all the time. I loved retrieving carts in no man's land; it was 1000 times better than having to deal with the people inside Walmart. I could pop some headphones on and listen to music too. What's not to like?
I worked at Walmart too and we have different opinions it seems because fuck that. 100degrees with no shade, it’s Saturday and busy af, doing that all day long and then management bitching because you aren’t moving fast enough and they only scheduled 2 people. And then they don’t give a shit when you explain why it’s taking you so long because of all these assholes leaving their carts 200 yards away and then you get coached for productivity because now the team leads are having to help push and they are pissed at you. Yea, there is plenty to not like.
So you're saying we should leave our carts as far away as possible? And that Cart Narcs guy should mind his own damn bidness?
I have always been the guy to return the cart safely, on foot, every single time, no matter if I arrive in a car or walking.
I don’t think it’s safe or even legal to drive like this, do you?
Private properly more than likely. Legality is pretty moot in this instance. And relax with the holier than thou attitude. The cart was returned, albeit lazily. Net positive.
Oh fucking relax.
It's a parking lot, they are going under 3 MPH, the danger is real, yes, but nothing happened, lucky for them.
Get a fucking life and lose some weight you lazy asshat.
Some people here just get angry over whatever. I can't be pissed over the driver here. Nobody was hurt and they were actually courteous. Also, what if this driver was a lone handicapped person in a huge parking lot? Some of you have to learn how to switch tones and attack the infrastructure and not the person.
This is just lazy.. A lot of drivers are lazy as fuck, so nothing surprising.
Too lazy to get their winter tires removed as well. The fuel efficiency of those tires is low already, but on warm asphalt, it's worse. Probably one of those types that screams about gasoline prices and the government overreach of forcing winter tires on people. Then complains that winter tires wear out too quickly.
What in the god damn fuck are you responding to? Who even came close to mentioning winter tires? Or tires in general?
I guess I did. That'd require a third grade level of reading comprehension though, so you are forgiven.
Ever been to Anchorage ? There's parts of the roads where you can literally take your hands off the wheel, due to the ruts in the road from snow tires in warm weather; you can go up to a mile like sitting in your car at the car wash going 2 mph in heavy traffic
Atleast they returned the cart.
to be fair, mall parkings aren't an urban environment, it's privately developed, and i've seen malls with EXCELLENT tramway access and pleasant public parks for pedestrians being insanely bad at managing their pedestrian pathways and shopping carts return processes
Yeah Big Box stores are like the wild west - they get to pick where to put cart returns, whether to build pedestrian paths, etc. Sometimes towns might have requirements around those things in their zoning, but the actual implementation is sort of up to the Big Box company at the end of the day. Especially once they're built - they can tweak things years after plans are approved and most towns aren't going to notice or care.
This one is particularly odd. Is there really only one cart return spot? I'm also confused why they had to drive around to find one. Maybe Canada is different, but in the US there's usually like 2 or 3 return spots in each parking row. and yet people still don't return the cart lol... So at least this person returned it I guess.
You take your life in your hands in Big Box store parking lots. I really think that zero thought is given to layout other than "how many spots can we cram into this space?" Having in and outflow traffic across the front entrance to make drivers slow down and where pedestrians have to play Frogger is insane. I generally like Costco, but they do the same dumb shit.
In this case, I'll bet that there was a cart station right behind them, but it wasn't on the path out of the parking lot.
Work smarter not harder
Least car dependent north American
It’s lazy. But it’s still getting the job done.
This is a person who was traumatized by Cart Narcs and didn't want that confrontation ever again.
Not a ticket-able offense but this person is still likely a lazy bones.
I’m actually impressed
Probably the most skilled driver ever seen on r/fuckcars.
He managed to multitask without causing death/injury....
Honestly went pretty smoothly
This is just no way to live life
Is this in Newfoundland? Lol
Moncton New Brunswick, locally known as Methtown, and the people here are horrible drivers
Oh Moncton 🤣
We made it to the big times on reddit based on our defining attribute, laziness. So proud of my city rn lol
I'll take it. At least they didn't just shove it into the bike rack.
I ain't even mad. He took it to the corral.
Supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi have coin deposit locks on the carts in the UK - can you imagine how that would go down in the US if all stores started using those
That would be pretty crazy. But Aldi does do that here in the US also. :)
The store I used a couple years ago tried them. After a couple months the chains broke. After 6 months not a single one lasted. It's like pay toilets, people don't tolerate that stuff. Doors just got kicked in.
100% chance that a vocal segment of the population would start howling about their feedumbs and how it's a violation of their rights.
They make slugs you can purchase cheap to put in the cart lol
The store tried giving away tags with eyelets so people could put them on keychains. That doesn't work because none wants to risk losing their keys.
Haha that is awesome!
I hope that cart is beating the shit out of their shiny white car.
the driver was just being efficient with their energy
I'm gonna be honest, I've totally done this before at my old retail job. It was after closing though, there were still carts in the lot from lazy bastards that didn't return them, and it was more just because we thought it was really funny.
Respect my g, respect!
Cartnarcs is happy
I'm not even angry, I'm impressed! That's amazing!
This is just funny. Chill out
if its stupid and it works, its not stupid
That’s kinda impressive ngl
Dude is a champion and genius to me🤷🏿
Probably not overweight s/
Why do these people even have legs if they don’t use them?
I wish the Mazda5 still existed. A Sienna is the size of a Tahoe now. Minivan my ass!
If you don't return your cart, you are a selfish person who only does nice/good things when you directly benefit.
this might be the laziest thing ive ever seen
They put the cart back i cant complain.
You know what? They get a pass. Don't do that again but okay.
Lmao this is in Moncton too
Professional fatass
I thought dollarama was just a word Mr krabs made up in that one episode
Huh alrighty then
I wonder what the Cart Narcs would have to say about this one
Cart Narc approves this video!
Officially self-governed!
bruh...just bruh...
I remember living in a large suburban apt complex with one massive dumpster, so many ppl would just throw their trash on top of their car and drive it. Occasionally a dummy would have it fall and just trash the road...
At least the returned the cart. /s
Cart Narcs would be proud
That was sick actually
This is the kind of thing where depending how a person is holding the trolley, a pot hole can break your arm.
Behold the "convenience" of cars.
From a German POV he/she is just a lazy PoS.
Why dont you make them coin operated? Its not perfect, but it works
Can you imagine being THAT lazy?
I am in awe
is this cart parking lot polo?
I've done this from a bicycle before.
Only half a lazy bones.
And I thought I was lazy...
God I despise how fat and lazy cars have made people. People always talk about soda and mcdonalds and whatnot (which are definitely contributing factors) but imagine how less obese America would be if we just fucking walked and biked on a somewhat regular basis
Would this be OK with the cart narc?
this reminds me of that The Office chapter when they can’t use the office parking lot and everyone loses their mind over a 10 minute walk. like just move your legs, that’s what they’re made for
As someone who has to pickup shopping carts being left anywhere BUT the place they are supposed to be, I'll let it pass
this is exactly why countries with high car reliability are sooo fat
examples: usa and canada, very obvious
the whole gulf, its very similar in design to america and no wonder half of them are obese
forget any other example lol
At least they returned it. Also, pretty goid aim. 😅
Holy fuck these people talk in such an annoying way
… walking a cart to one of those structures is poor urban design? No, some people are just really fucking lazy.
Edit: my ableist side didn’t even think of people with various mobility disabilities or impairments. It is more complex than I assumed.
This guy deserves an award for creative efficiency when returning a shopping cart.
That guy is no doubt too lazy to shit
Cart narcs! Weee oooop skiddley boop! Sir you forgot to put your cart back!
this sub is so sad just a bunch of people whos lives suck and mad that they cant drive
This is me with three garbage bags hanging onto my rear bike rack of my car driving to my apartment's dumpster in the front of the complex. Unfortunately, once I forgot that I had the bags there and I went for a 20 min. drive and they were gone when I reached my destination. 🤦🏻♂️
I think you are the A hole for following and filming them. At least he was doing the right thing.
That’s the laziest shit I’ve ever seen.
Beautiful
Cartnarc would be proud
I know exactly where this is, sadly.
I have to say... I am impressed.
As much as I hate cars, I respect this.
Cart Narc co-signs this
I would do that when I worked for a grocery store after we closed. You are tired of walking and people would leave buggies all of the place. You would find our buggies in the woods etc.
This is a parking lot.
They keep making car centric areas that no one want to be in, if only they would stop thinking in their 70s mentality of a city. Until they do , thats what we gonna get
Z,
I used to drive a smaller SUV and I’d put carts in my trunk and drive them half a mile when people would leave them super far away, now I drive a sedan and I can’t do that
Mazda5 for the win! I've owned 2 of these fantastic vehicles.
he gets a pass for this being the funniest shit of all time
Eh, I found it to be funny. Could be doing worse things with that car. I can forgive it if it's at least funny.
The Cart Narc would be so proud!
You sure this isn't Texas?
I'm good with that
This is worse than not returning the cart
Okay but that was actually amazing. I see way too many people who simply leave their carts in the middle of lots
Cart Narc's would be like WTF?
half of me: how fucking lazy
the other half: well at least they didn't leave it in the middle of the parking lot...
Shit I kept thinking he was gonna turn left and get the cart stuck under his car. Fuck it, he returned his cart, so that’s a good thing!!
My first thought is that this is someone trying to be decent by taking the cart back but is also wrangling multiple kids, hence the minivan. A good effort.
Honestly, it works
Who’s more pathetic, the driver or the cameraman, my lord dude do something better with your time.
Cart narcs would be proud of this one
He didn't endanger anyone. Speeds were low. Ample time to stop if any person or object came in the way. People drove with one hand all the time. You just want to be sanctimonious and shit on potentially disabled people by calling them lazy. Do you want people taking a lens on your daily activities like this? I guarantee someone filming going about could find something problematic to complain about too ;)
Is nobody talking about the obnoxious narration?!
I am more concerned that the person filming this while driving is not paying attention to the road.
This is how my neighbor (driving a big pickup) brings his Herbie Curbie (municipal trashcan) from the curb up the dirt drive to his house.
I’m going to allow this
Yeah I'm sure that cart pushed into the proper row and hasn't become the next person's problem.
You people have mental issues.
Hey I mean, fuck cars, but that was legit pretty smooth.
I co w tym dziwnego jest wózek odstawiony nas miejsce no ale jak zwykle ktoś musi nagrywać żeby zabłysnąć i swoje ego podbudować 🤷♂️
Nah I'd give him a pass on this one. He did return the cart and probably drove less than 5 mph.
Omg it’s Jason born
could have babies in the car. Triplets!
Well I was NOT expecting to see my hometown on here... (jk, it is one of the worst cities for car free people...)
i fail to see the problem here. chill it.
All the time he saved doing that can now be spent polishing all the scratches off his door.
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At least returned the cart; better than most!