Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Cart me away!

Please tell me someone else has done this...

So I went shopping for groceries at Wal-Mart this morning and I got one of the enormous carts. You know the kind that feels like you are steering a big blue buffalo around the store? I'm not talking about the fun kind with the cute car in front of the basket. No... these are the ones where it's you, a spot for two kids (more if you are creative), and your basket WAY out in front somewhere.

With my two boys I can't use a regular cart and put one of them in the basket and the other in the seat because then where do I put the groceries? Sometimes I think... "I'm not getting that much. I can put the car seat in the bottom of the basket." Then I end up stacking groceries all around the carseat and once they are bagged they will never fit back in there!

So I have resigned myself to the hugenormous carts that don't exactly turn on a dime (heck, they probably wouldn't even turn on an oversized frisbee).

The only problem with these carts is that with a baby's car seat on top and you pushing on a bar approximately THREE FEET behind that it is impossible to see where you are going. So I'm on my way out of the store when... CRASH! I felt like I'd hit a brick wall, but I still couldn't SEE what I had hit. So I go around to the front of the cart to find that I ran right into one of the bright red poles. You know the ones in front of the store that are there for absolutely no reason I can determine? (Why? WHY are they there, people?) I swear everyone walking by was laughing at me as my two year old freaks out and starts asking if we had an "ack-ident". It was a little bit embarassing, to say the least.

Then after playgroup today we went to Albertsons because they were having a great sale on chicken. They only had regular carts in the store, so I put the carseat in the basket. I was only getting chicken, right? Hah! By the time we were done I could barely fit the groceries back in!

Why don't more places have the carts like Costco's that can seat two kids? I can't wait until Eli is big enough to sit up by himself, but I don't know how excited I am to try to get my two-year-old to follow me around instead of riding in the cart!

5 comments:

  1. It's called "creative stacking".... yea that thing I do at the store each week with baby in the seat part, toddler in the big basket (don't you dare put anything on them) and 5 year old in tow. The huge carts are such a pain, but even in the regular carts it is hard to see over the car seat. I think the red posts are there to stop someone from ramming into the store with their car, an unhappy consumer perhaps!

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  2. You are probably right about the red posts, but I still think they are obnoxious.

    I have put Jonah in the basket before, but then I somehow end up with damaged goods (even if he's trying to be careful). I'm not a big fan of smushed bread, etc.

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  3. I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the "limo" carts!

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  4. lol I came across your site from the Make Me Laugh Monday site, and I have to say, you definitely made me laugh! This story was hilarious!! Thank you so much for sharing. Even though I can't relate because I don't have kids, I was dying laughing! Thanks!

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