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So this is the unknown person I'm muttering at under my breath who was inconsiderate enough to leave their cart somewhere that's in my way, for their own conven
by smeej 4y ago
So this is the unknown person I'm muttering at under my breath who was inconsiderate enough to leave their cart somewhere that's in my way, for their own convenience?
Stay with your cart. That's the only way you'll be available to notice it (and you) are in someone else's way.
Also, the "lived" in "short-lived" absolutely does not rhyme with "dived." The word you're talking about would just be "short-lifed." That's why 100% of native English speakers would raise an eyebrow at you if you pronounced it the way you've written out in the article. The noun "life" does not ever become "lived" when joined to an adjective.
- bombcar 4y agoI’m trying to imagine a store that has aisles without other aisles you’d block if you abandon your cart to go down the aisle. Or shopping aisles that aren’t wide enough to support cart action. A more reasonable realization is if you live near a grocery store you can buy your OWN shopping cart and never have to bother bagging.
- donatj 4y agoHear me out. There's no harm in moving someone else's cart. When an aisle is busy I happily leave my cart at the end, pop in to grab the one or two items I need, and come back weaving my way around the mindless drones pushing their cart single file as slow as possible.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoOnce I accidentally took someone else's cart, and another time someone accidentally took mine. The first incidence led to the shoppers filling extra bags of bulk food items until I returned the cart to them. The second incidence resulted in me loudly asking who took my cart and describing the contents (including my reusable bags) for a bit until the person found me and then muttered to themself that they'd now have to try to find where they left their cart.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoI was kind of convinced by the article's short-lived argument. I think it would really depend on whether the noun that the "short-lived" is modifying is a subject or object. A human would be long I, while a particle would be short I. But then I have a lot of pronunciation quirks. Edit to add: The verb forms of "knife" and "wife" both use the same I pronunciation (compared to live and life), so I don't think the comparisons are that convincing after all.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoLeave your cart by the end caps if the isle is full.
- smeej 4y agoThe end caps of our aisles are just an aisle unto themselves. There's no such thing as "somewhere that isn't blocking something."
- fuzzfactor 4y agoThis was the more common layout before the actual "Super"-market came along. To work around this you need one person just to stay with the cart at the endcaps while the other shopper runs up & down the aisles.
- tonymillion 4y agoYeah I’m not sure about the “live dived” thing… “He lived as he died, short and ugly. Until he died he was alive” [Edit managed to cut off “Liv”]: Influenced by the modern Scandinavian word "liv" meaning "life."