Shopping can be pretty frustrating

The grocery shopping cart is the most underrated irritating thing in the modern world. Anyone regardless of age, vision, or mental health can drive one around the big-box stores. And sometimes when left alone in the parking lot, they take it upon themselves to just take off on their own and crash into parked cars.

In the stores, they are never parked: They are welded together as a group at the front of the store and cannot be separated without pulling, wiggling, jerking, and kicking. To top it off, when we finally get one loose, it usually has a flat tire and can hardly be pushed, so we have to go through the whole ordeal again. Then we start off weakened and exhausted before we’ve put a single thing into the cart.

So we start pushing the cart into the store and head to wherever it is we want to go.

But low and behold, there appears to be another problem: one of the front wheels does not want to go where it is that you want to start your shopping. It wants to go to the parking lot and keeps trying to head that way. A safety check would reveal that there is not a single shopping cart in the entire world that has all four wheels working as they are supposed to.

If that’s not enough, there is the problem of how the bird-brains that designed the store ever come up with the idea that the aisles should be just as wide as one-and-a-half of the shopping carts. I wonder if maybe they must just have so much fun causing pain and frustration, because that is what I think whenever I meet another shopper with a full cart heading towards me. One of us has to back up! And if there are three or four carts in the same aisle, it’s probably a good thing they don’t have horns! Can you imagine road-rage at the grocery?

But then there is the positive impact of pushing a shopping cart with one messed up wheel from the milk cooler to the dog food place.

Without doubt you will get your exercise for the day, and if you were to shop three or four days a week, you could cancel your membership at the gym and probably come out ahead.