I had absolutely no idea what this post was talking about at first. It took me a full 2 minutes to work out its meaning. Here is the English translation:

"My pet peeve is people who have an aversion to putting their"...

well "freakin" is a very American word. I know what is stands for, but we don't use it over here, so, to continue:

"to putting their flaming supermarket trolleys back where they belong."

I really did not understand a word of this at first. There was no context to tell me what "carriage" meant. Here, a carriage is something was used 100 years ago to ride in behind a horse. Heard the song 'love and marriage...go together like a horse and carriage"? Well, that's a carriage. We don't even have "baby carriages"; we have "prams" and "pushchairs". And there is no English word for "corral" in the sense of a place to put things. We might say the 'trolley bay" but this is not an official term.

Phew. It's hard work learning a new language.

SC, it's EASY. Whoever gets there first, goes first. If it is a tie, the person on the right goes first. If you two are facing eachother, then the person going straight has the right of way.

I didn't have as hard a time as you, but I did wonder what carriages were. We call them "carts"/"shopping carts." The "freaking" isn't only American, it's Canadian too. And BTW, we DO call them "cart corrals."

Oh! Are they different, then?

(SC: Ducking and running away.......)

...Okay, "diversion" is my own stilly language...The correct word IS "aversion". And I just asked my son what he calls the things you push around in a grocery store..He said "shopping CART" and as usual he said the old people call it a carriage.

He hates when I call Pepsi, tonic (old people call it that)....That is not an old people thing it is strictly a Boston thing and my mom grew up in Boston. I get all my "old" people language from her. Okay done rambling.

Let me tell you when this "rule" doesn't work so well. A few days ago, I drove into town and pulled up to the 4-way stop. Simultaneously, a car pulled up to my right and a motorcycle pulled up to my left. I had the right-of-way to the motorcycle, but the car had the right-of-way to me. So, for about 10 seconds we all sat there and watched each other, until finally the cyclist waved for me to go first. But it was a VERY odd 10 seconds!

tl

United Statesian is a bit of a mouthful so we hogged the entire hemisphere instead and made it mean US. Even though .02% of us know better.

Oh my goodness you're at the mall on a Sunday for crying out loud! What's all the rush about? You're going to be walking around for 4 hours once you get inside anyway! If you wanted to get in and out, you'd go on your lunch hour or something. Talk about unreasonable expectations My kids are kind of pokey, staring at their cell phone and texting while they walk down the middle of the road and all, but c'mon, they're having important conversations LOL. Why would they want to hurry up for your convenience?

I like that I started a long line of rants.

NewEveryDay...it's unfortunate that the conditions which I was describing occur frequently at 11am at the local grocery store/hardware store/insert whateverstoreyouaregoingto It seems that people, in general just have no scruples anymore.

I am a pretty patient person, to boot, so i can't imagine what some road-rager might do under those same conditions. I simply and wait until the kings and queens of america get outta the way.

It happened to me tonight mark. Someone passed me and got in front only to slow down and go about the same speed i was but to close to me. GRRR.

Well i was driving my daughters 3400 grand am so... Spank me I passed him. MuuuHAhahahaha...

Hey SC, Pip, Pip Cheario .. Don't forget your mack when you go out during teatime..

You might need a torch if you go outside your flat tonight.

See us people from across the pond in the colonies learned some of your launguage. lol

But don't ask me to go to Liverpool or to New Orleans, (Nawleans as they say it there), and understand anything Lol. Who Dat?

Bunch of MB weirdos...

Whew, Thought for a minute I ws becoming normal or something. Thanks Still.

I am ..Abby something.. Oh yeah.. Abby normal.

You are Abby normal alright...

OHOHOHOHHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH

I thought of another one. People who talk on their cell phones while in line at the checkouts. I work in a major retailer as a return desk associate. Their phone rings and they answer it. SERIOUSLY? Is someone on FIRE? What could be so important? Then they say, "No it's okay, I am almost done. I am just at the cashier right now."

Even worse though. I used to work at Wendy's. How many times did I hear the ding go off to signal a car. I would say, "Welcome to Wendy's, can I take your order please." Only to hear, "ring, ring, Hello, hey......." REALLY? just order your darn burger and go away.

When I was young, we didn't even have an answering machine or call waiting. If someone didn't answer, you called them later, or you actually walked down to their house. If it was busy, it was because they were talking to someone else.

here are my rants:

High School - I graduated in 1986, never planned to go back, had enough of it the first time

Being invisible - really, what grade are you in again?

That's all for now

I graduated in 1986 toooooooo....teeheehee

Scotty, I used to work at Caldor...they are all closed now...but I used to work the register and then a few times they put me on returns...Well returns were 42 on the register and sales were 2...The whole day I was so used to being on the register that I forgot to put the 4 in front of the 2....Well everyones returns were rung up as sales...Mwahahahahaha!!!!