Catchy huh...Here is the deal. I love the people here in New Orleans. I love the place, the atmosphere, the energy, the food, and again the people. These are the same people who I share the roads with though-the one's on the road I ranted about in my last blog. They are also the same people who I shop with at all the great stores here. Something happens, though, when they get out of their Road Warrior mode, and out of their shopping mode when they leave the store. It's a state of mind they enter before going back into Road Warrior mode. I just don't have a name for it, so I am calling the act of it "carting".
So what am I talking about? I am talking about getting carted. You know, back in Dallas or wherever-where you go to the store you occasionally see the renegade cart rolling to a helpless empty car. You see some carts with no home (usually at Wal Mart) because the cart corrals are full. And yes, on occasion you see that "busy" person who had time to shop at the store but has no time to take the cart they chose to borrow back where it belongs or to its proper return corral. But here its totally different. Everyone, and I mean everyone (except us) leaves their cart right by their parking spot. Some people nudge their cart up against the car beside them. Others do the semi right thing and prop the cart on the small, decorative grassy/tree spot so it won't roll away. Others just unload it and give it a little push towards an empty area of the parking lot. The cart corrals sit empty. No one uses them. Carts are all over the place. When you roll into your favorite store you have to park far away because carts occupy most open parking spaces. They do because no one here seems to have time to roll them where they belong.
Today, as we left Rouse's (its like Kroger meets Tom Thumb in Dallas but much better), we started to load the car. Opposite of our car was a woman doing the same thing. She unloaded her cart and then pushed it an inch away from our car and loaded herself up in her over sized SUV to head out. My wife and I saw this and my wife went towards her and got the cart. I chose to glare at her. The woman just stared at my wife, then pulled out. I urged my wife to put the cart behind the woman's car but to no avail. We got carted.
We have started a 2 person crusade here. Wherever we go, we park and grab a couple of carts each and roll them in. We are hoping that people will see this and hopefully understand the concept-similar to when we are children and taught to pick up after ourselves. We are trying to break the carting habit through example. Sadly,I don't see this crusade going far but we refuse to give in to the masses. The carting problem is too widespread and I think everyone is just used to doing the carting thing.
We will do what we can though, one cart at a time...
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