Shopping Trolley Ettiquete

Okay, There must be unwritten rules (not just in Australia )for shopping trolley ettiquete.

- follow the flow of traffic, up one side down the other side (not down the middle with family and friend either side so no one can pass)(or against the flow of traffic)
- if you are slow, expect others to pass you
- if you stop to get something or need to think about it , pull your trolley to one side and align yourself with the trolley or shelves (do not complain if you get bumped by a trolley cause you are standing in the flow of traffic or in the middle of the aisle)
- if someone said "excuse me" usually indicates they want to pass or are trying to get your attention (not look at them, ignore them, like they are something you stepped on)(or complain if you get "heeled" by a trolley cause your in someones way)
- give way to the elderly, impaired, people with children, children in general (not make the elderly get out of YOUR way)
- don't just stop in the middle of the suppermarket with your trolley just anyway you pleases, especially if it near the check-out and not expect to get " told off"
- try and line up in an orderly fashion at the check-out without impeding the flow of traffic- and if the line moves , move with it, if someone jumps in your space in the line, perhaps it was because you didn't look like you were in it.
- We do not need to hear all the shawdid details of what you did last night, with how, how many times, who's doing who, and if they know and what your family history is, or how interesting you think your life is, while you are on the phone, with a friend etc - VOLUME CONTROL people, if we really thought our lives were so boring and yours were more interesting, ...We would ease-drop.. we come to shop, the gossip magazines at the counter are for that purpose.

Okay,
Yes I'm still sick, I Have little patients at the moment, the only think holding me up today was the shopping trolley, the only reason I went out was to get dog food and more throat soothers.
But, courtesy people,
a basic human lesson
I made sure I was showered, clean cloth (no slippers, no tracksuit pants), brushed teeth, brushed hair, I may have looked like sh*t, but I made a small effort to look and apprear presentable for what should have been less than half an hours trip into general population, and I did cover my mouth and nose when I had a coughing fit (unlike others)

I'm going back to bed and taking the dogs with me...

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Understand, fella. Over in the US we call them 'shopping carts' instead of trolley, but the unwritten rules and the jerks who don't follow them are much the same.

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Candi

Hollywood is a land of money and cowardice.

-Henry A. Lee, Cracked.com columnist

A particular peeve of mine is people who just ditch their shopping carts, wherever, in the parking lots when they're leaving, instead of taking them back up the store front or putting them in the "cart corrals." So many times, I've been in the act of turning into an (apparently) empty parking space, only to have to stop, back up, and find another one because it's obstructed by an abandoned shopping cart.

My three year old daughter had a kids shopping trolley in Coles supermarket yesterday while we shopping. I think they're a great idea....everyone got out of her way when they saw a 3yr girl old giggling and running down the aisle towards them at a rapid rate of knots with kids chips and a few other things she manages to pick up at her level...calling out enthusatically,"Mummy...mummy I shopping too!"

So where does the kids shopping trolly's fit into the ettique???? LOL!

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up- Pablo Picasso.

I can't believe the PJs and bare feet! I'll admit that occasionally I've had insomnia in the middle of the night (2 am or so) and gone to the 24 hour supermarket. I'd put on super minimal makeup, and throw something on *over* my PJs. But definitely clothes and shoes on my feet. And that's the middle of the night!!!!!!

What are these people thinking?

Of course, right now it's trendy for girls to wear these flannel pants with t-shirts, and the whole outfit *looks* like PJs. Or is that 'last year' and I'm out of it already? Can you tell I'm not a fashionista?

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I may have worn sweat pants a few times. I don't remember. I usually stop off on my way home from work.

Bare feet? Ick. At least wear flip-flops, people.

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Benefits, not features; benefits, not features

My favorites are the ones who stop whereever they happen to be, usually right in someone's way, and walking away leaving their cart where it stands as they trot their aisles over to get whatever they forgot. Why can't they take their cart with them?

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Perspective Alters Reality

Sometimes they are. Then there's paranoid me, I don't like bending down to get something off the bottom shelf and leaving my purse in the cart.

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Perspective Alters Reality

Those first ones sound like they would work well at the theater I work at.

Of course I would add something about teaching them not to talk through a LIVE performance.

Then I would add for all ... we show appreciation through clapping (maybe a bravo) but not whistling and whoooping.