did you know shopping carts cost $300 apiece?

neither did i. but you learn something new everyday.

there's a weis market on the opposite side of the block on which i live. there's a stream in the way however, so you can't walk directly to it, but rather must go around on the sidewalk. i don't shop there because it has a crappy selection of crappy old products at crappy prices. but mary does. and oftentimes she just wheels the damn shopping carts right on home. and leaves them either out front on the sidewalk or in the community area in back. and that's why we have a problem.

she did this very thing again last week. it looks really trashy having a shopping cart in the back (not that this place isn't trashy anyway, but that's not the point here), and especially when she just leaves it in the middle of the patio area. i let it go for a couple days, figuring she'd return it, but it has just sat there. come to find out, she almost never returns them. usually, our neighbor paul brings them back in his truck. so add lazy and irresponsible to crazy, annoying, fat, smelly, and gross as ways to describe mary. not that you couldnt glean lazy and irresponsible from the fact that she doesn't work, but whatever.

so finally i had it. paul shouldn't have to return it. mary should just not bring them home. if she doesn't buy a lot one time, she should just carry the bags home. and if she does, well she allegedly has a car now, so if she really doesn't want to carry them she can use that. the point is, i dont want to see that shit around here all the time (sometimes in the way), nor do i want to be held responsible should someone find it (we were almost all fined a few months ago because mary kept a bunch of random shit outside in the community area...though i certainly wouldn't have paid, nor would i have had to i'm sure).

so i called weis and told them. cuz i've had it with mary and all her shit. i've just had it. i hate her, and i hate all the shit she pulls. and she tries to act all nice and sweet so you cant get mad at her, but it's not working for me anymore. no way.

the weis guy was really appreciative, and described the process to me. it now goes something like this:

step 1: verbal warning directly to the customer (cut a hole in a box)
step 2: citation (put your junk in that box)
step 3: hopefully mary learns her lesson (let her open the box)

and that's the way you do it.



1215 UPDATE: i just got home from a night of poker to find a second shopping cart in the common area, stacked inside the first like it was at weis. this is not going to work for me.