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Well, duh. The least you can do is wheel it into the nearby cart corral, where the store employee will shepherd them all back in with a CartManager XD (whose name is extra hilarious to me). If you know anybody who's worked in retail you understand the suckage of drawing the short straw of having to round up all the carts, especially in inclement weather.

My wife had a couple of joint replacements a few years back, and for a time she availed herself of a motorized cart where available. I LOVED driving these back into the store, and I got indignant when a staffer tried to offer to take it in for me.

One time I was approached by a kid who I swear to you, looked just like Morty Smith, offering to take the motor cart back. A little skit formed in my head, which I related to my wife on the car ride back home:

Morty: Aw, geez, I could—I could take that back for you, sir.

Rick: Oh no you don't. Mario Karting this thing back into the store is the most fun I get to have on our weekly grocery trip. How DARE you try to take that from me.



> a CartManager XD (whose name is extra hilarious to me).

They're made by 'Gatekeeper' which is even better.

You're only supposed to move 25 carts at a time with one of those, and we used to get videos from stores that we serviced where the employees would regularly see how many carts they could get that thing to move at one time...


25 carts is nothing; that’s a single man job.

I’ve seen those trains sticking so far out of a target it’d make Union Pacific blush.


I find it funny because XD is an emoticon for a Cartman face and Cartman... CartManager... XD




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