Looking for a parking place at WalMart today, the first spot I might have taken was occupied by a shopping cart. The space immediately across the aisle also had a cart but it was sufficiently off to one side such that I could squeeze in.
Now, the first space mentioned was immediately adjacent to the shopping cart return area. To have returned the cart, the person who left it blocking a parking space would have had to push it a whopping 3-4 feet.
The one across the aisle would not have had to be pushed all that far to return it.
I’m wondering why the people who left these in parking spaces didn’t bother returning their shopping carts. Were they just incredibly lazy? Are they, perhaps, just so hugely self-centered that it never occurs to them that leaving a shopping cart in a parking place might inconvenience others?
I can understand that some people would not return a cart if they had to take it a couple of aisles over, but, geez, why would they not bother when the distances are very small?!?