LEFTY478 Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 (edited) I got back to my parked car, today, just in time to stop a wind propelled shopping trolley, speeding across the car park and hitting my motor at 5-6 mph. Looked around for the culprit but there was no 'obvious' guilty party. In fact the car park was full of trolleys that people had simply abandoned to let everone else take their chances with damaged paintwork etc. Now I think about it, I don't remember it being so bad twenty odd years ago? So what's changed, why are there so many people that just don't give a ****? And super markets, who own the car parks, don't give a monkeys either. We've all seen their signs, like: "The company [insert name] accepts no liability for damage to persons, vehicles or property arising from the use of this car park, however so caused". (Oh, but the same companys' will sell you car insurance) Signs, which are used to cirvumvent any responsible for controlling the use of their car park, usually found next to another one stating that by, 'using the car park' you are agreeing to their 'terms and conditions', which may include 'fines' for improper use. So what's wrong with signs to 'remind' people that negligently causing or allowing criminal damage is, errh "Criminal". Or maybe 'fines' for not returning their bloody trolleys, like the majority of people, who aren't selfish, lazy nobbers. End of rant. Edited July 25, 2007 by henry d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyjaimz Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 sounds like the painters are in sorry I saw a guy lose control of a trolley in a supermarket carpark last year, ended up smashing somebodies brake light. He looked around and saw me watching him, then promply went back inside to fess up to his crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 It wasn't this bad 20 years ago because supermarkets were not anywhere near as prevalent as they are today. You probably walked to the shop and didn't use the car at all, back then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerman Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 It wasn't this bad 20 years ago because supermarkets were not anywhere near as prevalent as they are today. You probably walked to the shop and didn't use the car at all, back then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEFTY478 Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I passed my driving test in June, 1987 - so almost exactly twenty years ago. Twenty-one years ago I worked Saturday and some evenings in a local Tesco's and I often walked down to car park at the end of the high street to collect trolleys. But I can remember that it was unusual to have to wander around, rounding up the tolleys, as almost everybody had the courtesy to return them to a trolley park. There has been a sea-change in public manners and not for the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 the problem i have is that i live round the corner from BnQ so there trolleys always make it onto my street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeihrauchPower Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I hate it!!! The only thing that cheers me up is the thought of people who do it being so lazy that they'll end up fat and die. Harsh i know! I suppose it's clear that Darwins theory is well and truely alive and visible in modern society! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Amazing that people will always return the £1 trolley... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJaxeman Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Amazing that people will always return the £1 trolley... Thats how they all should be works abroad they are nearly all a Euro for a trolley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEFTY478 Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Amazing that people will always return the £1 trolley... Thats how they all should be works abroad they are nearly all a Euro for a trolley. I agree with that: it doesn't seem unreasonable to have to deposit a pound or two in order to use a trolley. Especially if it means people being spared the grief of spunking up one, two (or even more) hundred pounds on their excess and blowing their NCB for a bodywork repair. It would keep 'em off residential street and out of the local duck pond, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkBoy Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I got back to my parked car, today, just in time to stop a wind propelled shopping trolley, speeding across the car park and hitting my motor at 5-6 mph. Looked around for the culprit but there was no 'obvious' guilty party. In fact the car park was full of trolleys that people had simply abandoned to let everone else take their chances with damaged paintwork etc. Now I think about it, I don't remember it being so bad twenty odd years ago? So what's changed, why are there so many people that just don't give a ****? End of rant. I think this simply reflects the fast pace of modern society - Who's going to waste 60 valuable seconds on returning a shopping cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I think the phrase "fast paced modern society" is simply an excuse for self-centred spiteful "me me me" types to act like little kids who don't know any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkBoy Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I think the phrase "fast paced modern society" is simply an excuse for self-centred spiteful "me me me" types to act like little kids who don't know any better. Yeah - ***'s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEFTY478 Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I think the phrase "fast paced modern society" is simply an excuse for self-centred spiteful "me me me" types to act like little kids who don't know any better. Or, "selfish, lazy nobbers" as previously mentioned, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeihrauchPower Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Good old Aldi know how to do it! Quid a pop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I think the phrase "fast paced modern society" is simply an excuse for self-centred spiteful "me me me" types to act like little kids who don't know any better. Or, "selfish, lazy nobbers" as previously mentioned, then? Bang on, and full credit to ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr3w1986 Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I remember when the Safeway store I worked in converted to Morrisons (who use the quid for a trolley system). Loads of customers made such a big fuss about it, some swearing to never shop there again, just because of the trolleys!. I reckon they were the ones who kept dumping the bloody things all over the carpark, lazy slobs. Incidentally, aren't 1 euro coins the same size as pounds? If so, if you have one left over from a holiday, dedicated trolley token!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Or just one of the freebie trolley tokens you get given at various places by companies pushing their brand name. Some people have whole handfuls given to them. Licence to dump trollies or what. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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