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Things that frustrate us all

Thank you. We are currently packing to move out tomorrow morning. All our stuff will be in storage and we're staying in a motel until we close... which they said will be Monday but who the fuck knows at this point.

I found a motel in the next town over that accepts cats for a small fee, so we'll all be on one room for at least three days. Plus Junior is going to the vet first thing in the morning for his check up, so maybe that will help keep him out of some of the moving chaos.
 
fireproof78 said:
Feeling trapped. Not that it excuses it because he was definitely was wrong. Just that he felt trapped and lashed out. A similar incident was part of my loss prevention training as a manager.
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If being asked to be slightly uncomfortable makes you feel trapped, you're probably a danger to everyone you happen across.

Antimask and antivax is about ideological narcissism and political rage.
 
Hell, even if he did have some other mitigating factors and stressors. He's not a dog who's been improperly trained. He's a human adult responsible for his own actions who committed a crime.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Actually, it is.



Good for him, then. Anyone who's antimask and antivax should feel trapped. They're endangering the collective health.
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Unfortunantly some pople don't care about others, lack empathy etc...

Some pople are taught/learn to value the individual above others at all times, sure there is a time and a place to put your needs above others but during a global pandemic perhaps it's time to think of what small things you can do like wearing a mask/getting a vaccine will do for the greater good.
 
These are the same people who can't be bothered to return shopping carts. They just leave the cart near their car and it's not their responsibility anymore. Naturally, they are also the first to complain about an errant cart scratching their car or if there are no carts by the entrance to the store.

What also grinds by gears are those that make the half-ass effort to return the cart. Either they shove the cart in the direction of the cart corral or just dump it in the general area so the carts take up more space. I like to go to Costco closer to closing time when it's not as busy and can often get a parking spot closer to the entrance. There are usually large stacks of carts but often people will just pile up the carts in front of the stacks so it will now stick out almost ten feet further, which reduces a narrow roadway even further.

Regardless of the weather, I always return my cart. I will often stack the carts (touch of OCD). If I see someone finishing unloading their cart, I will offer to take it for them.

Perhaps Costco needs to go with the Aldi model where there's a quarter deposit to release the cart from another cart. The deposit is returned when the cart is returned.
 
Non Sync said:
These are the same people who can't be bothered to return shopping carts. They just leave the cart near their car and it's not their responsibility anymore. Naturally, they are also the first to complain about an errant cart scratching their car or if there are no carts by the entrance to the store.

What also grinds by gears are those that make the half-ass effort to return the cart. Either they shove the cart in the direction of the cart corral or just dump it in the general area so the carts take up more space. I like to go to Costco closer to closing time when it's not as busy and can often get a parking spot closer to the entrance. There are usually large stacks of carts but often people will just pile up the carts in front of the stacks so it will now stick out almost ten feet further, which reduces a narrow roadway even further.

Regardless of the weather, I always return my cart. I will often stack the carts (touch of OCD). If I see someone finishing unloading their cart, I will offer to take it for them.

Perhaps Costco needs to go with the Aldi model where there's a quarter deposit to release the cart from another cart. The deposit is returned when the cart is returned.
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Now that self-driving cars are a thing, I'd love the idea of shopping carts that can return themselves to the store. That way we don't have to constantly send people out to retrieve them. In bad weather that can be nasty.
 
Non Sync said:
These are the same people who can't be bothered to return shopping carts. They just leave the cart near their car and it's not their responsibility anymore. Naturally, they are also the first to complain about an errant cart scratching their car or if there are no carts by the entrance to the store.

What also grinds by gears are those that make the half-ass effort to return the cart. Either they shove the cart in the direction of the cart corral or just dump it in the general area so the carts take up more space.
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I don't know where you live, but around these parts it's normal to leave the cart in the parking lot. It's considered the store employees' job to collect the carts and return them to the cart corral. My local supermarkets and shopping centers have huge parking lots, and customers can't realistically be expected to wheel the empty carts all the way back to the front of the store.

What really pisses me off is when shoppers remove carts from the store property and wheel them all the way home! The alley in back of my apartment building is always full of stolen shopping carts. The stores, of course, have to pay to have the carts rounded up and returned, and the cost of that service gets passed on to the customers.
 
scotpens said:
I don't know where you live, but around these parts it's normal to leave the cart in the parking lot. It's considered the store employees' job to collect the carts and return them to the cart corral. My local supermarkets and shopping centers have huge parking lots, and customers can't realistically be expected to wheel the empty carts all the way back to the front of the store.
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Around here, parking lots of any size have a number of cart return stations set up in the parking lot itself. The customers return the carts to a nearby return area, then the employees gather the carts from there and take them back in the store. So the customers don't need to go all the way back to the front of the store.

And yes, even still, there are still some people that don't return the carts. I've seen carts just left literally two parking spaces away from the return area. I mean, come on.

Non Sync said:
Perhaps Costco needs to go with the Aldi model where there's a quarter deposit to release the cart from another cart. The deposit is returned when the cart is returned.
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I'm not a fan of those ones, because I rarely have physical money with me. If it's someplace I know uses the system, then I can usually plan in advance to make sure I have a quarter. But if it's someplace I don't usually go, it can be an unpleasant surprise.
 
scotpens said:
I don't know where you live, but around these parts it's normal to leave the cart in the parking lot. It's considered the store employees' job to collect the carts and return them to the cart corral. My local supermarkets and shopping centers have huge parking lots, and customers can't realistically be expected to wheel the empty carts all the way back to the front of the store.
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And I've seen the wind push those carts across the lots. I'm sure you'd appreciate the scratch on your car because someone else just let the cart be so the store employees can do their job. Just like dropping trash on the ground because it's someone's job to pick up after you.
 
Eric Clapton just digs himself deeper into a hole every fucking day.

Now he thinks YouTube videos are embedded with subliminal messages to force COVID compliance.

What an asshole. :rolleyes:
 
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scotpens said:
I don't know where you live, but around these parts it's normal to leave the cart in the parking lot. It's considered the store employees' job to collect the carts and return them to the cart corral. My local supermarkets and shopping centers have huge parking lots, and customers can't realistically be expected to wheel the empty carts all the way back to the front of the store.

What really pisses me off is when shoppers remove carts from the store property and wheel them all the way home! The alley in back of my apartment building is always full of stolen shopping carts. The stores, of course, have to pay to have the carts rounded up and returned, and the cost of that service gets passed on to the customers.
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Why can't customers be expected to return a trolley to a designed area? It's just sheer laziness not to return one to a designated bay. I believe there are trolleys availble that wil lock their wheels if it gets to far away from the store. Everthing gets passed onto the conusmer a fraction of the cost of every item is there to cover theft not to mention dumped temperature sensitve products.
 
After watching my husband and his colleagues in nursing go through some very, very sh*tty times over this last year, like having people spit on them and tell them they're part of a government hoax while they're trying to save their lives, my patience with the anti-vaxxers right now is real real low.
 
More generally, people refusing to critically examine their own world views, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, and simply dismissing the evidence presented as 'must be fake because of <x> agenda', and that even after being refuted, simply keep repeating the same nonsense.

Then again, I must confess I haven't critically examined all the anti-vaxxing arguments in depth myself and in many cases simply relied on what 'experts' told me. Simply because I don't have the energy to expend to become an expert myself (would take many years of study).

Still, I think I can better trust medical experts than self-declared 'skeptics'.
 
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