I used to think people would judge me so I wouldn't do it, until one day I watched a 60+ year-old feller do it with no fucks given. I felt so inspired that I do it too now with no fucks given
My favorite walmart story:
I'm in my 20s. I ride the cart down the aisles, especially when empty (edit: the aisles, not my cart). I'm heading down the frozen aisle looking for pizza or something, ridding along at high speed to get to the other side.
At the end of the aisle comes a cart barreling around the corner. An older 60-70 year old man is ridding his cart at a good speed, and we both ride past the other cart having a stare down as we cross in opposite directions.
After that moment, as the carts keep on wheeling down, we both give a couple more kicks to gain speed. I get to the pizza section, he disappears around the corner. Never to meet on the racing track again.
My favorite Walmart story: Wife and I shopping, I head down one aisle to grab some deodorant while she heads down the next to grab some conditioner or something. I hear this huge crash. I come around to look and the cart is on its side, contents spilled all over and the wife is sprawled out on the floor next to it.
She was riding and tipped it over backwards.
Sadly, not a single person was around to witness it.
I loved doing that as a kid, but stopped when I got too old for it to be cool, and was worried people would judge me.
Lately I've been trying to push my comfort zone a lot for personal growth, and after putting my groceries in my car I felt a strong urge to ride the cart back to the cart storage thing. Instantly the little voice in my head was telling me not to do it, that you're too old for this shit and people will stare.
I told that little fucker idgaf and rode that bitch all the way across the parking lot. So worth it.
My 60 year old mother does it every time I'm ever leaving a grocery store with her. It makes me see the young version of her come out and bring much joy in my life.
I push carts at a grocery store, and there is this one older guy who does thks everytime he's done. It's hilarious, you guys are a dying breed unfortunatly though 😪
awsome. im an able bodied man and I often use those motorized carts intended for the elderly/disabled/fat people. I often get yelled at it though. especially if I wear a helmet and cape, or if I hop off and make a mad dash to my car on foot.
I've had a few bad crashes in my days. one time I crashed into an isle of tomato sauce jars. I swear, the whole thing happened in slow motion. some old fuck cut me off. me "get the fuck out of the waaaaayyyy". I swerved right and headed straight into the Francisco Rinaldi at 1.5 mph.
The asshole manager told me to get out of the store. I was there to pick up my daughter who works there in the photo lab. So I had to wait outside in my car with my engine running. My car is a piece of shit and spues thick black exhaust. I just sat there and laughed as my smoke went into the store and everyone started chocking and colapsing.
Fuck them, I'm 36 with a head full of gray hair.
I pick up terminal velocity coming out of the store, steer by dragging my foot on the ground and hanging off the side (and I'm good at it, like I can fucking slalom) and whenever there's room I slide into parallel park next to the truck.
I swear that crack-heads begging on the side of the street don't get the dirty looks that mothers with kids give me.
That's usually when I lean over the handle bar and do Matt Hoffman's "Condor" trick while popping the front wheels off the ground...
Fuck 'em all, nobody's gonna harsh my mellow!
I just let the cart go until it stops naturally, since I haven't found a way to keep the weight in the front yet and that would probably flip the cart over completely.
I'm a cart pusher at a large retail chain, after we close and the parking lot is empty it's a free for all. Ride until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
I don't even see kids doing it anymore. Every once in a while I think "Fuck it, I'm a grown ass man now. If I want to ride the shopping cart to my Toyota I will"
Que 26yo man of 6'4 riding shopping cart with angry expression
take comfort in the fact that my s/o does this in every. single. parking. lot.
I'm usually wearing heels, so I hang back and let him coast all the groceries to the car and start loading them in while I casually - and carefully - stroll through the lot. By the time I get to the car he's already bagged most of the shit so I can just get in and go home.
Ironically, I'm usually too heavy for the weight of the food in my cart to keep it from flipping back onto me. I will however, take every opportunity to ride things with wheels like road cases (which are a regular occurance in my line of work)
I work at a grocery store and I ride shopping carts/u-boats/the other smaller not shopping carts as much as possible. some of the smaller carts have u-boat style wheels (fixed in the middle and castors on the ends) which result in some crazy physics when riding. when I'm a customer on my way out, I run full speed into the parking lot on my way, jump on, and see how far I can go.
OMG I park in the back of the lot for 2 reasons, my damn TA's car door are huge, and the parking lot at wal-mart is on a down hill slope... ROLL FOR DAYSS
Ever learn how to brake steer rubbing your feet on the wheels? I'm ready to take on Pikes Peak!
I'm a grown man who has kids nearly as tall as me and the cart is heavy. If the slope is there and the coast is clear, game on. I'm all Tony Hawk with that bitch. A legend of the parking lot in the making here.
Sometimes these days I put my kids in the basket if we only got a few things and I push them as fast as I can run. It's as safe as anything else we do (bumper cars, bumper boats, riding bikes), and they fucking love it and laugh like crazy people.
It's true, so few people do this nowadays. I push carts at a busy grocery store and I only see a couple people do this per shift. Interesting enough I've noticed that most of the people that do are either less than 20 years old or more than 50.
I do this with my three kids hanging onto the basket. I get dirty looks as I'm racing down the parking lot with 3 kids screaming, "Faster, dad! Faster!".
I witnessed an older couple (probably in their 70's) racing their carts down the parking lot at Walmart, giggling like little kids the whole way. Really made me happy for the rest of the night.
I do it until I hit a bump and pop a cart wheely, almost crushing myself under the cart. Then I serious the fuck up and walk like an adult, blushing and hoping nobody saw.
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