Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 8/5/17 - Returning Carts Says A Lot About You

Episode Date: August 5, 2017

What kind of cart returner are you?  There are 2 different people in this world; cart returners and cart deserters. Whichever side of the line you stand on says a lot about you.  Jeffy comes up with a third type of person, and he says those are the worst. Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. You know when you go shopping, let's just go grocery shopping, because that's the main store where you use a shopping cart. And you unload your groceries.

And then you do what with the shopping cart? What do you do? Do you leave it? Do you push it in the next, in the next parking area and just walk away? Do you push it up on a curb half and half and walk away? Or do you take it back to the cart receptacle? Some cart receptacles are wide for two or three rows. Some are short for single rows.

What do you do with it? So I read an article, what returning your shopping cart says about you. Now, I believe this guy's trying to be a little funny, but he's right. I realized, according to him, he realized there are two different people in this world, cart returners and cart deserters.

Both say a lot about you. I would add a third to that. There's the cart returners, there's the cart deserters, deserters and then I'm not sure what we call the the cart erratics or I'm not sure what we call it but there's the

cart person who feels like they want to return it but they don't want to walk all the way over to the receptacle so they just push it as hard as they can toward the receptacle and wherever it lands it lands. Yes, yes those are the cart half assers yes that's exactly I'll go with that I like that

because we've seen them Now there are several times that I know that I could make it Now that's a little game in my head Where I say ooh the receptacle's right there and no problem Whom And go as hard as you can but I do follow through So if it were not to go into the receptacle Which never happens

If it were not to go into the receptacle I would go after it and put it in But again That's not going to happen under my watch I return them I do return it drives me the reason I return them is because, look, how much do I hate not being able to pull into a parking spot because of a shopping cart left? Have them blowing around a parking lot when it's windy and they're blowing around, they're loose?

How much, I see them half and half up on the curb of a parking area. you know, somebody, or they just leave it next to it. It just drives me crazy. So it's, I feel bad about being angry at those people if I don't follow through on my end. So I take them back. Now I, at one time, for a time of my life, worked for a grocery chain. And part of my job when I first started, of course, is, carts.

So no matter what you're doing in the store when you hear the manager, carts, you know that you've got a hopsing, your bougie butt outside and go get the carts. Now, in today's world, some of the bigger stores,

the bigger box stores, they've got the cart machines. I would have killed humans for that machine. I mean, our part of our deal was to see how many we could actually push in from the parking lot and get them into the door and into their slots inside

the store. Because that takes them doing. You might be able to push a straight line of however many cars. I really don't remember how many what the record was. I can tell you that I was the record holder. But I don't remember exactly what it was. But the trick

the record of being able to push a row of carts up to the door is one thing. The record of being able to push the carts up and in the door is something else. Because you've got to get the turn right. You've got to keep the momentum going forward. You've got to get the turn right. And then you've got to reach a certain point where you swing the line back because you don't want to hit the other side of the doorway. And then you've got to keep the momentum still going forward.

forward. I mean, it could be a sport. I was to say it could be. Possible. But then they ruined it with robotics. Those bastards. They brought in a robot card pusher.

Those bastards. Still takes a human though with the remote control. Wait till that job ends. Those robots will be pushing 8,000 cards in. But they won't need to because every time a cart gets left out there, a robot will be standing by to push it in. Huh? Come on. That's a good gig.

So he claims that there are hundreds of excuses for someone to leave their cart propped up on a grassy medium or left between parking spaces. Maybe they're in a hurry. It's raining. They're trying to escape dirty looks for getting there because their oversized truck is parked across two spaces. Whatever the reason, there's one thing all these excuses have in common. It's all about them. We see that all the time. Especially, I don't want to say Texas is any worse than any other place, but Texas is worse than any other place.

Many people believe that the world is about them, and that's what they live on. And again, I don't want to say that Texas is any worse than any other place, but Texas is worse than another place. So why not take a step for it? If you're a disabled person with a cart, offer to return it for them. It's all about helping your neighbor. Successful people put others first instead of being wrapped up in things that benefit them. They look for ways to help and serve those around them. You will get all you want in life.

if you help enough other people get what they want. So, I mean, I'm living large. If I help enough people get their shopping cart. If I help enough people get their shopping cart, I mean, that's, I've living large. Count on that. I mean, when it comes to money, the more giving you are,

the more likely you are to make. And, you know, a lot of people poo-poo that, but this man gives you a good example, a hand that's closed tightly around money and shares that none leaves. But it also ensures no one can come in. An open hand allows money to come and leave freely. So think about that.

Now, he claims that we've all been tempted to turn into the dark side. Your child is screaming. The nearest cart receptacle is 10 parking spaces away. Can't I leave the cart here just this once? Again, this is where I have a problem because I want to just leave it there. I mean, I've already paid an extra amount of money for my groceries because they want to pay Bob Jr. to come out and get shopping carts. So let Bob Jr. get it.

That's his job. Because Bob knows when he hears carts, he has to hopsing his butt out there and get carts. Even if it's with the remote control machine that they can bring in 18 million cars. And they got it easy now because most of those places have like garage doors that the machines, the robots could just wheel in hundreds of cards in a row. It's not like the old days when we had to do it by hand, I'll tell you that. When men were men, and grocery baggers were cart boys.

Car boys were boys. Something like that. So you just need to do the right thing. Know who you are. What kind of person are you? Are you a cart returner, a cart deserterter, or a what was it? Oh, are you a cart? Are you a cart returner?

A cart deserter or a cart half-asser? Which are you? You decide. That drives me crazy to those carts, man. That's one thing. I seriously, I don't know why it bothers me so much. I really don't. And it's been a long time since I've actually left a cart,

not in a cart receptacle. It just drives me. I mean, it only takes a little bit of time to wheel that cart back to where the receptacle that they have for them. Just a little bit of time. And if you work smarter not harder, perhaps when you're looking for a place to park, you try to park close to a receptacle. So the walk isn't that far. Right? But we just leave it.

You pull it. I mean, how many times it's been busy? The store parking lot's busy. It's pretty full. and you see an open parking space and you pull in and there sits a shopping cart because someone only cared about themselves and didn't care about other people.

That's worse than a cart half-assar. The cart deserters are worse than the cart half-assers. All right? I'll tell you that. Oh, man. I can't, I, I'm too bad. I'm too bad to go on.