Bad behavior : (
 

Yesterday afternoon went to Colony plaza Publix via golf cart, while driving up a lane to park there was a man who had just loaded his groceries into his vehicle and parked his shopping cart in the middle of an empty parking space next to his vehicle, when a gentleman came up in his vehicle saw the empty spot and began to pull in, saw the cart, beeped his horn and asked the man very nicely if he was going to move his shopping cart ~ the man said NO and proceeded to get in his vehicle started it and waited for the other gentleman to put his car in park and get out of his vehicle to move the shopping cart and put it in it's proper space so he could park there.........really upsetting that people can be so rude and thoughtless, the very least he could have done was to put his cart in the front of the space or something, but to simply say NO and dismiss the other gentleman so rudely is just unbelievable to me.......sorry I just had to vent

Yeah...you'll see "some" of that bad behaviour here (for who knows why) but truly I think the majority of folks aren't this way. Unfortunately it's a few "bad apples" that bring a bad reputation to our lovely community. :loco:

It appears to me that lots of people here have the mentality that "I am retired and I don't have to do anything I don't want to, which includes returning shopping carts to the cart stalls and stopping for stop signs. And if you don't like it, you can just kiss my @$$. Also, I can save as many seats at the square as early in the day as I want to."

I find it annoying to find carts mere steps from a cart return area. we are retired and have plenty of time to take carts back....plus most could use the added steps as exercise.

The incoming man could have moved the cart - to right behind car of the guy who wanted to back up and leave.

I saw something similar but ran up and said with a smile that I would move it for him.

Remember the bad kids when you were young...not everyone grows up.

The 98% of us just enjoy what we have and live much happier lives.

Some very few think old age is an excuse for not complying with rules or being considerate....and a license for being mean and nasty.

This happens in PA a lot. If the person leaving the cart was still in the area, our 3 children would very nicely say, I'll put that cart away for you, and then do so. If nobody was around, they simply would grab a cart and take it into the store with them.

Our 9 year old grandson is following in his father's footsteps. He truly thinks he is helping and shows no attitude (yet). It tends to embarrass the person and our grandson is showing no disrespect.

Our attitude is a bit different. Yes, the person is rude, it isn't going to ruin my day, and I will simply grab the cart to put it away, or use it. Bad behavior is not isolated to The Villages.

I always put my cart away in the designated spot. You see, I remember the "good old days" when supermarket carts were always beat up and had sticky wheels or wheels that didn't turn at all. So i do what I can to keep the nice new carts in good shape.

My guess is he's been like this all his life. :mad:

Here? We all have seen this in places other than here!

I would have parked behind the person, moved the cart so it was directly behind his vehicle and then drove into the parking spot. Now he has to get out and move it before he can leave. Easy solution.

I think the solution would be for ALL stores to have the carts like they do at Aldi's You have to pay a quarter to get one and upon return you get your quarter back! Rarely do you see one in the parking lot.

Several years ago I had a too lazy person push their grocery cart right up against the passenger side of my NEW SUV and I didn't see it as I turned to the right out of the parking space - result was scratches all down the right side of my NEW SUV.

Ever since then, I've gone out of my way to check the right side of my vehicles, put my carts up and push any loose carts into the store or the cart parking spot.

Was I lazy before that moment, yep. After that, nope. Now, I park the farthest away from the door as I can so I don't worry about door dings and cart dings.

Good for you. A real Villager. Nice going!:)

Ah, but have you read on TOTV just how many of he posters "pack heat" with them everywhere they go?

A couple of Christmasses ago at Lake Sumter Landing, a Villager was arrested in an arguement over a parking spot when he pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the other guy. Yep, over a parking spot.

That msg from OP reminds me of an incident last April at Colony parking lot. Guess that guy may be married to the rude lady who rapped with her knuckles on my drivers side window & shouted at me: "Are you going to move your car anytime soon?" I was in a good parking spot & had finished shopping...but I was on the phone with my son who was in Europe. He is in the military & preparing to bring his family here for a visit. 'Hello' it was MY parking spot for that time & I wasn't ready to leave it. In addition I was waiting for a neighbor whom I had taken shopping. The rude lady had left her large SUV in the middle of the aisle behind me & three cars were blocked behind her. Whew...some people!

Now we know where Eddie Haskell ended up.

Nope...Saving seats is prohibited ...There are many here that will take your rope or ties or whatever you use to save seats for hours...and will throw it aside and your saved seats will be gone....

:thumbup:

Here is one for you. Today while at lunch in the cafeteria where I work which is a clinic located in a VA Hospital I was seated at my table taking sip of my coffee and the next thing I know I am on the ground. A man driving his scooter a little too fast hit me and knocked me out of my chair. This man had total disregard for what he did and did not even stop to see if I was ok. Fortunately I am fine aside from a small bruise on my hip. Just hope this man is still not driving a car because he could cause some serious injuries to himself and others if he drives a car like he drives his scooter!!!

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I said this before just moving to the villages does not make an AH any better they have been that way all their life.

I'll second that...

I agree. That's just one of the many reasons I like Aldi's. When I shop anywhere else I always pay attention to how an unattended cart may roll. This means I usually means I park further out and walk further then I do returning the cart at Aldi's.

I'm also surprised it hasn't cought on elsewhere.

Too bad you didn't take picture of license plate!!

Are these lazy @#%$'s so stupid as to not know this raises the cost of their future purchases? Someone has to be compensate for rectifying their laziness and that would be store employees, and just who pays these employees? That would be you, me and Mr. & Mrs. lazy @#%$

You can't fix stupid -or- lazy....

It's not just in the Villages, it's everywhere. I live in Ohio and frequent the Villages during winter climate in Ohio, and can't blame the people in the Villages when it happens in Ohio all the time. It's people. People are people - some rude - some nice. What are you going to do except when the rudeness exists, just go with the flow. Life is too short to be upset about people being rude and considerate.

It was thoughtless and rude behavior for sure, but why escalate the situation? Life is too short.

Good for you.
When I shop at Publix, if I see someone unloading a cart full of groceries, I offer to walk the empty cart into the store.
It's amazing how grateful people are for small courtesies.

I agree Bonny. I seen this at all ages and I personally do not think you change that much through the years. I like happy a lot more than being mean.

Priceless !

That's just simply not nice. It wasn't nice for him to be so lazy and it wouldn't make things better to block him in.

You just want to say to him, do you live in this world all alone?????

He'll be gone, end of March.

Had an experience at Colony last Summer with a Lady in checkout line (next up) that kept going back into the aisles to get more things. The cashier then proceeded to WAIT FOR HER rather than ask me to bring my stuff up. I was going to put all her stuff into my basket and push it into an aisle behind a display--but of course my better half told me that would be rude so I just simmered.

Sometimes I wish we had a column here for bad villager actors, would have loved to snap her pix to post here with the story:)

It isn't nice, and few people would do such a thing, but it's fun to fantasize!

So it was a snowbird?

Walter....You wanna fight? lol

There are a lot of things that happen during the high season that don't happen the rest of the year. I don't know whether it is due to having so many folks here, or whether it is company visiting us and not Villagers, or that folks haven't noticed how nice most people are and act the same or whether people are distracted or whether they don't have the chip imbedded or what.

I love snowbirds. Most of them.

Heck no! I'd never "pick" a fight with you GG! LOL