Thread: Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

I just thought you might be interested in knowing you have dangerously unstable carts.

Have you ever tipped one of these carts before? Have you ever seen anyone else tip one? If you're talking about the type I think you are, I have neither tipped one nor seen anyone else do so. If they were so "dangerously unstable," I'm sure it would be happening much more often. Is it possible that you just had particularly bad luck?

And I say this as somebody who's chronically clumsy (and gave myself nasty bruises similar to yours a time or two when I wasn't careful enough pushing a top-heavy, very tall, metal bakery cart across a street--until I learned to (a) pull them over bumps and (b) jump the hell back if they started tipping over).

She's talking about the smaller ones, and I agree, they can be very unstable outside of the store.

I know we're not talking about standard, full-sized carts. I'm picturing the smaller ones that have popped up in recent years (IIRC I first saw them in Japan in 2004). They're about the same height as a normal cart, but only about half the length. They either have one or two baskets (stacked vertically).

Originally Posted by niblet_head

Ouch. Have to say, I can't believe they didn't escort you out of the building immediately upon telling them you were hurt on their premises.

Heh - yeah, that wouldn't have surprised me too much.

Try it yourself - I've pushed many a cart over a parking lot curb in my life, and never ended up falling over it before (I'm not a falling over kind of person, either). The carts are just so short that once the front wheels go over, it completely loses stability, and since I was stepping down from the curb too, I was sort of leaning on the cart so it brought me down with it. ETA: I don't mean that in a snarky way - I am curious if this was just a freak accident or these carts really are dangerously unstable.

I have also had the full-on landing on the knee thing, and that suuuuuuucks. There's that brief moment when you wish you could blink like Genie and have time go backwards...

I think you need to... uh... reallocate (Yeah! Reallocate!) a few of these bad boys (along with standard carts for a control group) and run some experiments. I think this is going to require crash test dummies.

Get back to us.

I nominate Meryl Dory for evil person of the year.

You lousy bitch. You start a campaign to lie about about vaccines and then harrass a woman who had a baby die from a vaccine preventable disease. I hope your ribs break from whooping cough. I hope chicken pox scars your face. I hope your throat swells from mumps. I hope you get measles so badly you can't sleep for a month.

You suck lady. You're just as much of menace to humanity as any diphtheria germ.

A four-week old died from whooping cough, eh? How's that herd immunity thing working out for you? There's something that the ant-vaxxer nutjobs seem to have overlooked - those who are too young for vaccinations coming into contact with these terrible diseases.

niblet_head, I realized that my last post was kind of encouraging people to go out and fall off curbs and hurt themselves - don't do that! Unless, you know, you're okay with falling off curbs and hurting yourself.