Yeah, I gather up the scattered shopping carts that others have left hither and yon in the parking lot and return them too. It's become a sort of hobby. I also unscramble the bloody mess of tangled-up carts when I reach the repository, because half of them have just been sort of shoved vaguely in the general direction by someone who couldn't be bothered to push them properly into the cart ahead. It usually looks like the scene of a 20-car auto wreck around those cart collector areas.

Just think! All those people saved themselves one or two precious seconds by doing an absolutely lousy job returning their cart! One wonders what they will do with those one or two vitally precious seconds when they get wherever they are going? ;-) Probably nothing worth metioning...

I get your reasons for using the drive-through, VT. With those children in tow you are in a rather different situation than I am, so for you it makes sense. ;-)