I am a complete convert to phone. Do everything on it now.

In the phone/tablet/laptop use, I use the phone as a phone as it's too tiny to do much with. It irritates me to use when I'm out and need to look up something on the interwebs. Then the iPad when I'm drinking beer so the beer doesn't ruin the keyboard and the macbook when I'm sober.

Probably doesn't happen everywhere, but the selfish individuals who can't be arsed to walk their shopping trolley back to the cart corral. I understand the ones left in the disabled spaces because those people possibly can't do it. Last night I went grocery shopping around 7pm and there were plenty of spaces close to the entrance that couldn't be parked in due to arseholes leaving their carts in them. Plus when it's windy they bang into parked cars. Why is this?

I'd imagine if I'd done this at my local Tesco I would be publicly shamed.

Maybe it doesn't happen everywhere as you say but it seems to happen in all the supermarket car parks I'm ever in. It pisses me right off as well.

I did actually see one slam into the side of a car on a windy day, someone was pulling out of a space as I waited for them to go, one came out of nowhere and smacked into her car before I had a chance to jump out to try to stop it.

That, and the cockwombles who sit in the middle of the aisle waiting for someone with two trolleys worth of groceries to pull out so they don't have to walk their fat arses the extra fifty feet if they took the next available space farther up.

It's a status thing in Calabasas. 'They have people for that'.

Some of them are left by mothers with children who are, understandably, unwilling to leave their car with the children strapped in just to put their cart in a cart corral. If there is a loose cart near my car when I park I will usually take that in with me to use. Also if I see a mother nearly done emptying a cart I will offer, from a distance, to take the cart from her - and my offer has always been accepted with a smile.

Their lack of forward planning is no excuse for leaving trolleys lying around the car park. Either park next to a corral or keep your legs together. Can't have it both ways.

If you hang the kids off the side of the cart, like boat fenders, it prevents the cart from scratching the cars.

/helpful.

I suppose I always managed it?

Brilliant idea.

As a parent myself, I can confirm that the grocery shopping experience is made better for all, if you just leave the little shits at home. I do get tired of people using the fact that they procreated as an excuse for all sorts of annoying behaviour as well. Oooo, you did the one thing that biology drives you to do. Here, have lots of medals.

Meh.

So did I. What rot.

I want a medal now.

On another note, I've seen that Whole Foods have Parent and Young Child parking spaces. Only place I've seen it apart from the UK.

We did lots of things in the past and/or in the UK that seem crazy now. I never had a car seat, and in fact I was at uni before my father bought his first car with seatbelts in the back. We seemed to worry a lot less back then about children being abducted too. And we didn't usually have the heat in the UK that turns cars into furnesses in a few minutes - what happens if you are run over by some idiot driver after you have strapped your infant into a car and stepped away to park your cart? The chances are very low, but the results could be horrific.