Preventing Car Dents with a Little Exercise

Go to any parking lot where there is a store that provides shopping carts. Super Wal-Mart is the best example. Automobiles are the major objects sitting in the lot. However, look around see the signs of laziness. Next to many of the parked cars, or just taking up a car space, are the empty shopping carts that were left there by the last person who pushed the cart out of the store.

Most of us have a dent in our car. Sometimes we can’t figure out where it came from. Other times we know it wasn’t there before we went shopping. Then again, sometimes we come out and low and behold there is an empty shopping cart resting on the side of our car. Guess what? Before it came to rest it rolled into the side of that car and put a dent in it or scrapped it. All because someone was too lazy to return the cart where it belonged. In the designated area for shopping carts to be returned.

Now I have to think how could this happen. I finally realize that people are just lazy. Laziness is the reason I now have a dent in my car. I see plenty of areas in the lot designated for returning the carts. Oh, I see the problem. One might have to walk about 40 yards and sometimes less than 10 yards.

That distance seems to be just too much for most of us. We just push that little cart in the parking spot next us, get in our car and go (again laziness). Maybe there is a little incline that will get the best of the cart and make it roll into the first object it meets. Maybe there is a gust of wind that does the same thing. Maybe someone else comes along and gives a push because they had to get of their car and move the cart in order to park. Being frustrated that they had to do that, the cart gets a little push from the upset driver and rolls along until it finds the side of someone’s car.

What is the matter with us. Why can’t we think ahead or think of others. What is wrong with walking a few extra yards to put something where it belongs. You don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to know that these carts have wheels and will more than likely roll by itself until it hits another object (a car). An awful lot of us could really use the exercise. But that is the last thing on our minds, because laziness takes over. I’ll just have a 64oz. bottle of diet coke and that will take care of my weight problem.

There are many times when I drive into a lot and before I can park in a space, I have to get out of my car, move the cart taking up that space to a cart return, get back in my car and park it. This is only done because the last person who pushed the cart was too lazy to return the cart where it belonged.

Here is another example of our laziness. Same parking lot as talked about above. You are stopped in a lane of cars and the one in front is waiting for a parking spot. Too lazy to walk any further than one has to. It has to be the closest one to the entrance. There are so many available spots but that would mean having to walk maybe 75 yards. Most of the people waiting for these spots really could use the exercise and maybe help keep a pound off of them.

Another example, the driver goes up and down the rows looking for the parking spot closest to the entrance of the store. The time it takes to do this vs parking at the first open spot when you first come in to the lot is quite a lot.
If someone is coming out of the store and looks like they are going to their car that first car will wait and see if they can obtain that parking spot. It doesn’t matter if there is a cart full of groceries to transfer into the car. People waiting behind you to pass. The thinking is they need to get the closest spot to the entrance of the store.