My store is the center of the Bermuda Triangle

So there I was, balls deep in slacking off on a week night, when I happened upon an unattended cart.  I noted it for future reference, because sometimes customers leave their carts unattended for short periods of time.  I went upon my nightly routine of pushing the minimal amounts of carts on the lot and chatting it up with the folks at the service desk.  On my way to the back room for my break, I noticed the same cart in the same location with the same stuff in it.  Mind you, this cart had more than just a few things in it.  It looked to be a half stalked weekly grocery run for a family of 6, due to the fact that it had a lot of groceries in it from the aisles before it and none after it.  I then realized... The customers must have vanished.  Completely disappeared off the face of the Earth.  No scientific or religious reasonings could answer why a customer left a cart stocked with food.

This was only week one.

Since then, there have been numerous sightings of the same strange, unattended grocery cart throughout the store, and there has yet to be an explanation.

HEY SIR DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE-

No.  No I do not know where the woman's hosery is.  I push carts for a living and even though I stalk through the store mindlessly putting things back on the shelf as best as I can, I do not know where your off-the-wall item is.  I don't know where the water filters, tea candles, and baby clothes hangers are.  All I'm going to tell you is, "No, I don't know, but I can ask someone who does."  Please leave me out of the loop and skip right on over to the nice folks wearing khaki and with "Sales Associate" on their name badge.

Straight Lazy, Son.

There are few things that bother me about my job.  In fact, I actually enjoy most of the customers that come through.  They're from the nice part of town and generally make my job easier by putting the carts in the designated areas.  There are 8 of them in the lot, plus the cart area right in front of the store.  To the average customer, I pose this question; What is so hard about putting the carts back where you got them from?  Is it that hard to walk five steps to put it in the cart corral or take an extra second to push the cart back in line with the rest of them?  We do so many different things for you, have the carts lined up ready for you, make sure the store is nice and clean, and even have a greater right the fuck there when you walk in to whom you can ask whatever random mundane item you need's location.  All I ask, as a hardworking member of the business, is to show a little respect and put the cart back where it belongs.  And not half a mile away on the side of the street by a bus stop.

Benefits of Rain

Rain and Snow.  These two things can be a blessing to anyone working in retail.  When it rains, less people are out driving, and that means less people driving to Walmart.  Less customers mean less carts to push and that means more time wandering aimlessly around the store doing returns.  Lightning is an automatic "come inside so you don't get struck by lightning while you're pushing enormous stacks of carts." 

The Beginning

A long time ago, I was attending a private college pursuing an engineering degree.  Long story short, my grades slipped and I had to drop out and move back home to Kansas.  Now, I go to public school and I push carts for Walmart.  Its not a bad job, I work with good people about my age, and the hours aren't that bad.  Its also not the dullest job in the world... Sometimes.