Discopants and Haircuts

Let’s get right to business.

 The shopping cart. Here, in most of the stores where they provide shopping carts, you must put a ten kroner piece in order to use one. They’re all locked together until you ‘free’ one. This, I believe, helps to prevent theft (although you can take them if you really want one.. only ten kroners), keeps the parking lots clean and reduces work on the store employees. Just a pretty good idea. Sure it sucks when you don’t have a 10 kroner piece… but the inconvenience really does seem worth it. The thing is….  I think I found another reason why some stores do this… It’s for all the lazy fucking idiots that go shopping. Let me explain..

   You see, in the stores that have carts but don’t require a ‘deposit’, people leave their fucking carts anywhere. We have a small grocery store right up the street here. There are only 3 cashier aisles. Usually only one is ever needed. But, during a rush, there will be, no lie, 10-15 shopping carts just left all over in the area you enter after purchasing your goods. I mean, I have seen people look at all the carts and then leave their’s too. The saddest part is that the carts all neatly in a row are literally a small push away from where they leave them. A few times I’ve said, real loud, to the cashiers, "Gee! How rude for people not to be able to walk the additional 3 feet to put their cart back.."  I’ll try to remember to take a picture the next time I see this travesty. It boggles my mind.

 Then there is the most ridiculous driving rule I have ever heard of in my whole entire life…. But that’s for tomorrow…