BS: A word that means more than stupid

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:42 PM

": Why don't we always do this?"

I do... almost always

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:29 PM

Once I went to my local supermarket when it was very busy and there were NO shopping carts in the vestibule, where carts are normally stored. Instead, there were several customers standing around waiting for a store employee to round up more carts from the parking lot and bring them into the store.

I thought, "fuck this" and I went out into the parking lot, grabbed the nearest cart, and pushed it into the store. I passed by those same customers who were still waiting (and looking mighty dumb, if you ask me).

Then it occurred to me: Why don't we always do this? I have to walk from my car into the store anyway, and it takes practically no more effort to push a cart while I walk than to walk without one. So now, when I park my car, if I happen to see a stray cart nearby, one that some lazy customer has neglected to park in the "cart corral," I will push it into the store. That way, I always have a cart. Plus, I have saved a store employee a bit of trouble. Plus, I have cleared a parking space for some other driver. Plus, I have gotten a little bit more exercise, which I need anyway.

If everybody did this all the time, the store wouldn't have to pay an employee to round up carts in the parking lot, and it would be able to sell food a little bit cheaper. And stores like the Arc wouldn't need to worry about people pushing carts into the parking lot and leaving them there.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:29 PM

LOL, Trolley Rage!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 11:49 AM

"BUT HE FORGOT TO MENTION THE GODDAM STUPID &%$&()S PARKED IN THE AISLE TO BLATHER ON THEIR LOATHSOME CELL PHONES WITH SOMEONE AT HOME ABOUT WHETHER THEY SHOULD BUY THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAY LUCIFER OPEN A NEW, DEEPER, PIT IN HELL FOR THEM AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SELL THE GODDAM PHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Say what you really feel, Midchuck. Don't hold back!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 11:45 AM

Could be worse, Peter. They could do their blathering with their phones on "speaker" and the volume set at "MAX" so they can be heard three aisles away. Been there, heard that.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 11:44 AM

Serious Christmas shopping

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Midchuck
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 11:08 AM

3) It's not the shopping carts' fault, but most of the people who operate them are idiots. The idea that an unattended shopping cart in the middle of an aisle might somehow obstruct other people's ability to traverse said aisle seems to be beyond the cart operators' conceptual skills. And when two morons who haven't seen each other in ages happen to meet in a grocery store aisle and decide to have a mini-family/high school reunion on the spot, just forget about doing any shopping on that aisle. Go on to the next one and come back after the two morons, their two shopping carts, and accompanying six children have finished their gabfest and moved on elsewhere.

Agreed. Agree with BWL's whole post, for that matter.

BUT HE FORGOT TO MENTION THE GODDAM STUPID &%$&()S PARKED IN THE AISLE TO BLATHER ON THEIR LOATHSOME CELL PHONES WITH SOMEONE AT HOME ABOUT WHETHER THEY SHOULD BUY THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAY LUCIFER OPEN A NEW, DEEPER, PIT IN HELL FOR THEM AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SELL THE GODDAM PHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!

(There. I said it.) (pant, pant, puff, gasp...)

P.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 11:05 AM

I went shopping 2 days ago.... yep, aisle blocked by two women chatting.

The local grocery stores I go to have decided that 'some' lost or damaged carts are preferable to expensive locking systems.... and 'most' people return the carts to outside storage spots scattered about the parking lots. Very few carts are taken off the lots, as it is just too far for most to walk home. I do see carts in large shopping centers abandoned WAY at the other end from their home store... I suppose those employees who work till closing have to collect them.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:58 AM

Projecting rods on trolleys would qualify for the word 'bonkers' or even 'batty'. I like 'Madder then Mick McMadd' too.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:58 AM

"Guest999, they are actually the very clever ones. They say one thing, mean another and do whatever they like. Pretty intelligent IMO!"

LOL, ya got me there, gal.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:54 AM

Supermarket-sized thrift stores eh? Well I knew everything state-side had a reputation of being bigger and better, but I still never expected that.

BTW, it occurs to me that the term insane is largely being dropped from use in relation to people, would that cover the trolley situation?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:49 AM

There was a series of American films called something 'Dumb...' means stupid in American language & extended the term to include 'Dumber & Dumberest'!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:46 AM

Guest999, they are actually the very clever ones. They say one thing, mean another and do whatever they like. Pretty intelligent IMO!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:44 AM

"A word that means more than stupid"

Think politicians to answer this one.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:23 AM

Oh I don't know, supermarket shopping can get a bit boring. What's nicer than a good old chinwag with a mate? Here in Norfolk you can get talking to a perfect stranger in the aisle, and other folk join in as they pass. It's great. I met a man who told me he was 96. Dear old boy, we had a lovely chat. If someone's trolley is in the way, just push it gently to one side with a smile. You may even start another conversation!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:17 AM

How big are your thrift stores?

The ones operated by local charities tend to be fairly small, but some of the stores operated by national organizations like Goodwill Industries and The Salvation Army are of supermarket size.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 09:46 AM

tory.....?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 08:02 AM

How big are your thrift stores? I believe our local equivalent is charity shops, but I have never seen one of those big enough to need trolleys, in fact in most the layout would render trolleys useless.

The arm attached to the trolley must be a blasted nuisance just making your way around the store, never mind getting outside. I quite agree that any trolley you cannot take to the car park is of very limited use.

Don't know what to suggest as a solution. Maybe if a your stores took up the coin idea (which does work widely in the UK and the rest of Europe) they could persuade those in the States that a $1 coin has its uses after all.

As for a word, well FARK.com use a 'Florida' tag for some pretty dumb stories, but I don't think that is your state, and I couldn't see you embracing the tag even if it were appropriate;)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Janie
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 07:50 AM

At the local Aldi's you have to pay a deposit for the cart which you get back once you return the cart to the store after off-loading into your vehicle.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 07:43 AM

I was going to say, "Don't get me started on shopping carts!" but you already have, so it's your own fault!

Things I hate about shopping carts:

1) They're required to have safety belts for children who ride in the little fold-out upper basket thingies. That's good from the standpoint of children versus concussions, but the belts and their snaps get all tangled up with other carts when they're nested together. Before you can pull your shopping cart from the stockpile, you usually have to disentangle it from its neighbor.

2) Most modern stores use some sort of rough surface material (cobbles, flagstones, corrugated stiff carpeting) in the area where empty shopping carts are kept. This is done so that you can't quickly evaluate the cart's performance. You don't know if it has a wheel with a flat spot or if it pulls to one side or the other until you've negotiated the roughly floored area and rolled onto the smooth main floor. By then, you're fifty feet from the cart storage area and, if you've drawn a bum cart, you have to decide whether to turn around and swap it out or to just live with it.

3) It's not the shopping carts' fault, but most of the people who operate them are idiots. The idea that an unattended shopping cart in the middle of an aisle might somehow obstruct other people's ability to traverse said aisle seems to be beyond the cart operators' conceptual skills. And when two morons who haven't seen each other in ages happen to meet in a grocery store aisle and decide to have a mini-family/high school reunion on the spot, just forget about doing any shopping on that aisle. Go on to the next one and come back after the two morons, their two shopping carts, and accompanying six children have finished their gabfest and moved on elsewhere.

BTW, there is a high-tech solution to the carts-leaving-premises problem Bert's thrift store decided to solve by making it impossible to push the carts through the doorway. Some stores' carts are equipped with electronically activated brakes which immobilize carts taken beyond certain perimeter points. Probably not something a thrift store could afford at this time but, hey, that kinda stuff gets cheaper every day.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 07:11 AM

But don't you have the coin system over there? Here in UK we put a £1 coin in the trolley-slot which releases it from the one in front. You trundle around, pay, take it out to your car, then return it to a little shelter thing, where a key on a chain can release your pound. No-one leaves their trolley lying around outside 'cos they want their pound back. Sorted!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 04:05 AM

Yes Raedwulf.

Now folks, how about your own examples of the need for this word.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Raedwulf
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 04:03 AM

Imbecilic? Stupidstupidstupid? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 04:00 AM

Yes Henry, but it destroys, the whole purpose of the shopping cart which is to get people to buy more than they can carry.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 03:39 AM

They do the same thing at my thrift store.
They don't want to have to go get them from the parking lot.
I can't blame them. I wouldn't want to do it.
I don't know what to tell you.
Bring your own cart?
=(:-( ))

Subject: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 03:32 AM

I know I said this before on the Delta Airlines thread, but we need a word that means more than stupid.

This time I am talking about shopping carts. Now shopping carts are a great invention, they allow us to pile up a load more purchases than we can carry. I know I do it all the time; I wheel the cart out to my car and unload it. Some times I even get my wife to load another cart so that we can carry twice as much.

Today I went into the local Thrift Store, The Arc in Colorado Springs.

And they just qualified for the more than stupid award. They have attached long arms to the sides of their carts so that customers can't take them out of the doors. By this action they have completely destroyed the whole usefulness of the shopping cart.

Now I can't load the cart with more than I can carry because if I do, then I can't get my purchases to my car.

As I said, we need a word that means more than stupid.

So, you idiots who are in charge of The Arc in Colorado Springs, if you don't trust me with your shopping cart in your parking lot, then why the hell should I visit your store again?