Shopping-Cart-Operations Review

It was brought to my attention, today, that I need to conduct a store-shopping-cart-operation review once again.  I may consider writing a syllabus on this very topic, and perhaps, writing a textbook in an attempt to educate the uneducated populace on the rules of  store-aisle maneuvers.  

Navigating the aisles of any store that utilizes shopping carts is very simple if you follow these basic principles:

• Store carts (either pushed or motorized) should be driven just like your vehicle on the roadways.  (Perhaps this is the issue?) Just as we drive to the right of oncoming traffic, so should we push our carts to the right of oncoming carts. 
• Do not operate your cart in the wrong direction of a one-way passage.  
• Park your cart just as you would parallel park your vehicle.  (Perhaps this is an issue, too.)  Close to the curb.....not three feet away from the curb.
• Just as you would not park your vehicle three feet away from the curb and then open your car door, bending over, thrusting out your derriere three more feet into traffic, do not stand on the side of your cart, either thinking, looking, or having store tete-a-tetes with your friend.  
• When thinking or looking, do not park in the middle of the aisle. 
• The middle of the aisle is for passing.  
• Parking on an angle is considered to be in very bad form.
• When turning from one aisle, go straight through the intersection, then make a clean turn.
• Do not cut corners when turning. 
• You are not the only shopper in the store.
• Your children are not supposed to ride under the cart, but, if you must, make sure they are not perpendicular to the cart-bottom.  

I will take my proposed syllabus to the National Association of Stores Using Carts.  Perhaps we can initiate a cart-operation certification program. Those not passing or possessing a certificate should have to carry one of those flags that young children put on the back fenders of their bicycles.  That way we would all be aware that a bad cart driver is in the vicinity. 

Happy store-cart driving.  It's a jungle out there.

Happy Holly Daze.

Ancora imparo