Questions of human nature

[infinite monkey]

I'm a card-carrying member of the Cart Corral Citizens Coalition for Careful and Correct Concentrated Control of Cart Cubbies.

Wanna see my card?

[limey]

While we're grousing about supermarkets, why are their car parks always sloped so that your trolley (= cart) rolls away from you while you're trying to get your shopping (=groceries) into the boot (=trunk) of your car.

[glatt]

We used to have minor issues with the toothpaste, but you know what? You can buy a tube for each of you. It doesn't go bad. It doesn't cost more. You're each still using the same amount, and you can do it however you want.

I got my own tube of toothpaste just because the door to my side of the medicine cabinet swings to the left, and it's easier for me to take the toothpaste with my right hand from my side. My wife uses the same brand, and on her side of the cabinet, the door swings to the right and she's a lefty. It's just slightly less awkward for each of us to grab our own toothpaste.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I'm a card-carrying member of the Cart Corral Citizens Coalition for Careful and Correct Concentrated Control of Cart Cubbies.

Wanna see my card?

Si, si, senorita

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

I got my own tube of toothpaste just because the door to my side of the medicine cabinet swings to the left, and it's easier for me to take the toothpaste with my right hand from my side. My wife uses the same brand, and on her side of the cabinet, the door swings to the right and she's a lefty. It's just slightly less awkward for each of us to grab our own toothpaste.

I'd just squirt a little extra on the counter for Pete.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Griff

I'd just squirt a little extra on the counter for Pete.

that sounds so dirty.

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by SamIam

I use the tubes with the flip back top. If they start looking grungy, I run 'em under hot water. Problem solved.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Gel toothpaste gums up all over the attached cap area.

I run it under really hot water until it falls off. Bleck.

I do the same so my toothpaste tube opening is usually if not always clean. That's why it annoys me a bit when I see an exposed tube with toothpaste hanging out. My aunt (the house guest) used to stick it in the drawer under the sink with the rest of the toothpaste tubes and toothpaste would stick on the insides. I guess it's better that she now sticks it in the toothbrush cup on the counter.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I thought about starting a thread about irrational pet peeves...here's one of my biggies:

Why oh why is it so hard to push your shopping cart all the way into the corral, mating it with the cart in front of it. You know, a nice neat line, all snuggied up...two rows. You can fit 25-30 carts in there that way.

But hardly anyone does that. Nice that they bother to put their cart into the corral, but they're all crooked and none of them are mated and you can get MAYBE 8 carts in there.

Sometimes I'll rearrange them a bit.

That's irrational??? I wasn't hoping so because I feel the same way. And yes, I sometimes would rearrange them too.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

It's do-gooders like you who put the cart cowboys out of work. A lot of them are special needs people (that's short bus to you) who are glad to get this work. I hope you are happy shaving down their hours.
bitch.

Well, if I don't rearrange them, I wouldn't be able to stick my cart in. And if I do just toss it in, the next person's cart wouldn't be able to stick his cart in the corral. If he leaves it half sticking out or just lying around, it may hit a customer's cart and get that "special" person fired. So, you see, I'm actually helping the cart cowboy keep his job.

Originally Posted by glatt

We used to have minor issues with the toothpaste, but you know what? You can buy a tube for each of you. It doesn't go bad. It doesn't cost more. You're each still using the same amount, and you can do it however you want.

I got my own tube of toothpaste just because the door to my side of the medicine cabinet swings to the left, and it's easier for me to take the toothpaste with my right hand from my side. My wife uses the same brand, and on her side of the cabinet, the door swings to the right and she's a lefty. It's just slightly less awkward for each of us to grab our own toothpaste.

We do have our own toothpaste. I just don't like the look of my aunt's messy and dirty toothpaste tube.

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by Griff

I'd just squirt a little extra on the counter for Pete.

Speaking of toothpaste on the counter, there would be bits of toothpaste in the sink after my aunt brushed her teeth. Uh...yeah, at least that seems less dirty than food bits stuck there after she rinsed her mouth after each meal.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Lola Bunny

Speaking of toothpaste on the counter, there would be bits of toothpaste in the sink after my aunt brushed her teeth.

Thor is your aunt? There is apparently no limit on where that boy can get toothpaste...

[BigV]

Originally Posted by limey

While we're grousing about supermarkets, why are their car parks always sloped so that your trolley (= cart) rolls away from you while you're trying to get your shopping (=groceries) into the boot (=trunk) of your car.

so the rain drains away and you can unload your cart without standing in a lake.

turn your cart perpendicular to the slope.

[limey]

Originally Posted by limey

While we're grousing about supermarkets, why are their car parks always sloped so that your trolley (= cart) rolls away from you while you're trying to get your shopping (=groceries) into the boot (=trunk) of your car.

Originally Posted by BigV

so the rain drains away and you can unload your cart without standing in a lake.

turn your cart perpendicular to the slope.

I get that about the water but the slope could be less pronounced to drain the water and not whisk the trolleys away.
You can't turn your trolley perpendicular to the slope here. They have twirly wheels so the cart will roll down a slope however you've oriented it. I jam my foot under one wheel to act as a brake while I unload it. I do have a solution, I just don't see why I have to!

[infinite monkey]

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

That's a completely different ballgame.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

You have to think about where that 'whole' is.

It isn't 'A whole [a]nother ball game'.

It's: 'A-whole-nother ball game'. The word 'whole' is inserted into the word 'another' in between the 'a' and 'nother'

Bit like saying abso-fucking-lutely.

[Nirvana]

Aldi's 25 cent grocery carts that give you back your quarter if you place the cart back in the cart corral and hook the chain to the cart in front. All the cart Nazi's shop there {I kid }