I have. Cart return is a mixed bag.
Nice weather and/or earlty shift: nice task.
Cold as fuck or near to closing: Nearest cart corral, please.
Either way: please don’t do dumb shit that gets people shot in my parking lot.
Maybe it’s changed since I’ve cart wrangled. Probably not.
Over 20+ years, but yeah. Especially considering there are times when I go fishing and never see another soul all day.
Three times out of more than twenty years is still too many.
SMH
My extended family and I both love the Southwest and Northwest backcountry. I keep trigger happy lowlifes in the back of my mind when I go camping, but my fam I worry even more about.
holy crap! Three times! With those attitudes why don’t they just gun fish?
Me, three!
I find a tall stance and aggressive forward pose (usually) works. 
It’s sometimes safer than braving the icy parking lot, in any case.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
O_O Is river fishing usually that aggressive? Like telling you to fuck off without guns?
Carts of Darkness is a great documentary: Carts of Darkness - YouTube
The ones at my market don’t have a horizontal bar across the back to balance on, unfortunately…
Not usually. It can get tense if someone steps into water you’re about to fish, but most of the time it’s an error, not intentional. My friend and I were lake fishing this summer in our inflatables and this dude drove his powerboat right across my fly line in shallow water. I was able to pull it in fast enough to keep it out of his prop, but we chewed him out pretty hard for it. He tried to anchor in between us and fish the same area with crazy big lures and too much weight and we just scrapped it and got out of there. He’d spooked all the fish, anyway. He banged his prop up on a stump on the way out. Had no cause to even drive a powerboat that shallow.
I’ve heard of fistfights before over prime water for steelhead or salmon, but I usually steer clear of areas that over-run with fishermen.
Well I have encountered assholes who come barging in on a boat and stir up everything. It’s like, “Really? There is a whole big lake here and you want to fish top of someone else?”
He banged his prop up on a stump on the way out.
Money can’t buy brains. I saw a guy with a new bass boat, $600 worth of tackle, and a new red truck to match, and he drove a rear tire off the edge of the ramp trying to get his boat on to the trailer and had to get towed out. 
around here, the fights for the real good fishing spots are with bears… There have been several instances where hip wader wearing fishers have been preyed on
I was a “cart guy” at Wal-Mart, except that “cart guy” isn’t a job (or at least it wasn’t at my store and I doubt it is elsewhere). It was one of many jobs that non-cashier employees did, along with cleaning the bathrooms, stocking shelves, cleaning up stuff kids have spilled, running returns back to their department, etc. So from the stores perspective, there really is no marginal cost to cart collection - they would need that employee anyway for all the other stuff.
I sympathize with the aggressors. This guy is an a-hole and extremely annoying. He should just just put the carts away himself if it bothers him so much, and should also get a new hobby that doesn’t involve getting in people’s faces.
For most of my college and a bit after I worked in a supermarket. Cart retrieval is just one of the tons of jobs the baggers do. Where I worked, we’d generally be assigned to cover that for about one hour of our shift. While it took a bit longer to round up the carts that weren’t in the corrals, it doesn’t make that much of a time difference, as we’d start toward the edge of the lot, round up strays until we hit a corral, and then return the lot of them. I can’t speak for everyone who’s had that job, and I’m in a very different place in my career now, but please don’t leave carts lying around for our sake. If the lot isn’t even ground, they roll and can damage cars, and even if you put them over a curb so they don’t roll, getting them out of the curb is annoying.
oh I don’t, I use the corrals if I’m in a car, but it’s a courtesy to other patrons not the business. The savings if any are never “passed on to you” 
There are a few examples of this sort of thing I can think of…bussing your own tables in a food court is another. I generally don’t; apart from leaving work so that others can do it, I’d rather the table be sanitized (I haven’t been to a food court for about a year though, so I suppose they all are now anyway) .
Selective enforcement of the law is an American tradition. It’s one of the many ways the police can apply laws only to people they deem unworthy. (does your skin have more melanin than an office finds comfortable? then expect tickets or arrest for every minor infraction. resist or complain? expect force, sometimes lethal, to be used against you)
Homicidal arsehole threatens obnoxious arsehole.
And I say that as someone who absolutely hates people who can’t be bothered to return their shopping carts (which thankfully is rare where I live).
This. Like, holy crap, America, what is going on down there. I grew up in the most conservative gun-loving part of Canada and never once saw a gun in someone’s hand that wasn’t inside a shooting range. There is something seriously broken in a society when someone has been threatened with one multiple times in their life for the most benign activity imaginable (fishing!!).
This is so far outside the definition of a civilized society that I struggle to process it.
