Vault: People Are Fighting Over Shopping Carts?!

0:00All right, so things are sort of getting a little nasty outside right now because it's I mean, it's the last couple of days of shopping here, and I think that there are some retailers that purposely may put as few items that are hot on the shelf as possible to create some kind of hysteria. Totally. So really anything can happen over the next four days. You could use, you were just talking about the Wii, like that would be a perfect example. I mean, they were struggling with that for the first year it was out, you know, like in Nintendo's famous for this, like they know that they're going to sell one million game systems. So they manufacture 600,000 just to create the hysteria and the excitement and keep it in the news and everything. Sometimes it just gets out of hand. But then it opens up to a whole bunch of other situations. Jessica, I went to the mall both days, Jessica and I went on Sunday and like the parking lot, even malls not really as crowded as I've seen it in Christmas is past, but people still get idly competitive for the close-up parking lot. Oh, sure. Two rows away. There's five empty spots.

1:00Like I think it's just this animal instinct that comes out, like people, you know, their endorphins are up. The adrenaline's pumping and they're like, that's more about wins and losses at this point. And then you have the people, the people who are calling our, you know, retail rant line, the employees who have just been dealing with it since the day after Thanksgiving, Jessica and I had to get a gift certificate from yet, somebody who is so salty, never once made eye contact with us, just mad at the fact that we were purchasing something from them. So there's all these factors into place, which got me thinking somebody, this holiday season, has had to have gotten into a physical altercation while buying their Christmas gifts. Four or four, seven, four or one, Q 100. Now it could be a situation like how about this maneuver? You're in the parking lot and you're there. Your blinkers on with the car backs out in the opposite, reverses out in the opposite direction. Kind of seablocks you. Yeah.

2:01And backs out and then takes off allowing a car to come from the other side and move into your spot, even though you were clearly there first with your signal, somebody, that happened to somebody. They snapped and got out, went up and knocked on the wind. I bet that's happened already. Yep. That could be one. How about this? That bird said the toy or the, whatever the last, you know, the hot item of the season is. And the last one is on the shelf and two people go for it at the same time. Somebody started shoving. You've seen already the video of like when Walmart opens up for that big old sale, how people are running over each other. That day. Somebody got kids to get to those. Yeah. Someone got killed. Two people in America died the day after Thanksgiving from shopping related to shopping. That is. Two people lost their life because they were trying to get a discount. I'm wondering if it's so sad. What if there's an employee of the store, like I was just thinking, what if we just, the girl that we were buying the gift certificate from yesterday, what if we just decided to antagonize her and just push her and push her and push her to the point where she threw the gift certificate at us. That could be a point that threw the whole thing right at it. There could be a point where, because they've probably had those, like, grazing out of

3:05me moments where you've thought about doing something, but then it flashes back and you didn't do it where you're working in retail and you want to, like, you want to slap somebody or you just want to push one of your customers, but you normally don't, but you snap. Couple of days ago, you're like, you know what, it's going to be worth it. I could have gotten into an altercation this weekend. I was at Macy's actually looking in the men's section for something from my dad. And was looking specifically for this one color and one size, but there wasn't a ton left on the rack and there was another woman on the rack and we were, like, circling each other. And I was like, if she puts her hand on the only large in gray, I am going to smack her. Here's the one that I got. And on Friday is you're up at the counter and the salesperson is helping you get somebody has to come. They think that they're asking you a quick question, you can ask you a quick question. Yeah, give me a line. You can. Right. Look, I'm, can't you see she's busy right now? Why is your question more important than what's going on with me right now? Because they're not purchasing something and you are move away. Move away. How about this one when you're on the rack and you're looking at stuff and somebody comes

4:07along and looks at the same rack and kind of closes your gap? Yes. Hey, dude, how was your first? Right. I was smush your fingers in between these hangers. They should, they should make a risk for covering them all. Hey, Michelle, good morning. You're part of the bird show, hi. Good morning. So, Saturday, I'm at Walmart, it has been our Walmart and we've got a cart with a few items in it. Guy in front of the lesson line has a soda. We're thinking great. We'll get in. We'll pay real quick. Yeah, then comes his entire honorage with two carts. He was just holding the spot line for them. We can't do that. That's not right. No, we can't do that. They're kind of bitching and he had a back the cart into me. I'm Popus. On that best spot, I mean, I was bitching at him, but yeah. So what'd you do back? I had to bite my tongue. Oh, you did? You took the high road? Yeah, I tried. I mean, I was looking what they had, what we had. I was pissed. But if every other line had six people in it, so. Yeah.

5:07That's very Christian of you to take the high road. Oh, thank you all. Merry Christmas, guys. Love you. You can't call out those bitching at him to the point where he hit me with his cart and they go, and Merry Christmas. Happy holidays, everybody. And I shouldn't hit him back. Good morning, Ginger. You're on Q100. Hi. How are you? OK. What's up? I'm sorry. You getting a fight? Yeah. Actually, it was one of the first things that Jeff talked about. This is last Christmas. I've been circling the parking lot for a good 20 minutes. And I finally found a parking spot. I found this woman walking to her car. And I was following her. And so she finally got to her car, told me where it was. I'd put on my blinker. And there was this other guy on the opposite side. And as soon as she did the reverse pull-off, as soon as she pulled out, he tried to zip in while I cut him off and almost hit the sucker. But we were not having it. No one was going to win this fight. It was hilarious. But I eventually did win. We got the police security involved, but it was pretty funny.

6:12I mean, I think we have to brainstorm on some generic parking rules. So because most of the calls coming in have to do with parking spots and fighting. Like, I don't believe in the whole, if you're first in the aisle, that you get the entire aisle of cars. No, it's just the spot closest to you. I agree with you. There's something that if you are the first car. So you can sit at the end of the aisle. So you can sit at the end of the aisle. That means anybody that leaves on that entire aisle, you've got the next spot that's available. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. How about this one? It's going to be the one you're specifically going for. Yes. Here's one that only applies, I think, during the holiday season. Because any other time of year, it's OK, but during the holiday season, the pull-through is not allowed. You are not allowed to pull into a spot. And if the one across from you opens up, keep coming through. Because that jacks up anybody in the next aisle. If anybody's one aisle over and they see that, you can't do that. Agreed. In a blinker, blinker marks territory.

7:12Yes. If your signal is on and it's turning right, you know? And somebody comes from the other side and because of the way the first car backs out, if they can technically physically get in the spot, it doesn't matter because you pee down it with your blinker. You have the responsibility too as the person that's pulling out of your parking spot. You know who got who was in line first, waiting for your spot. So you have to strategically pull your car out and block the later person and let the earlier person in. I agree. Now, what do you guys call on when say you're driving along and you don't notice that this person is just about to put it in reverse? So like the front of your car has already almost passed them. If you have to reverse in order to pull back in position. You would have to reverse to pull back in when you lost it. If there's nobody behind you, you can be mine. Because that timing is the worst. Yeah, it is. Like just when you're pulling by him and you're like, you can see the little white lights for the reverse go on. You're like, ah! Have you done this one where you're in one aisle and you see somebody pull out in their next aisle and you go a hundred and thirty miles.

8:13Yeah, and the following the customer is never allowed. I had to disagree with you on that. See, I think you can stalk people at the parking lot. Especially during the holidays, especially in these last couple of days. I check out everybody behind you and then what they do is they cut across two rows anyways because they forgot where they parked and they're going to use the panic button on the remote. I know, I do that almost every time. I like to weld two seats to the front of my car. So the people that are coming out of the mall can sit on top of my car and I'll give them a ride right to their parked car. That's right. Good morning, Kenny, you're on cue 100. Hey guys, how you doing? All right, man. Love your show. Thank you. Yeah, it's all the clinics. And I was in the front parking lot and I was circling around with my wife for about a good 30 minutes and you know how that is. And then I finally found a spot after really literally 30 minutes. And I waited, the person got in their car. They were pulling out and they did what Jeff was talking about where they pulled to the other side. And someone came from the other side and I said, look, that's mine. I started pointing at him.

9:14And the lady that was pulling out, he even started pointing at me when the other guy knows that I was my spot. Well, she pulls away and he pulls in the spot anyway. So then I go by, I pull down my window. I start yelling at him and we do the whole flicking off thing. And he just didn't care. So then I pulled around another 20 minutes and finally found a spot for my wife. I'm going to go key it's car. And she says, don't do that. Please don't do that. He's in Mercedes. Just leave him alone. I said, okay, well, whatever. Well, let's go inside. We'll shop. And if I come back out and he's still out here, then I get my turn. And she said, well, okay, whatever. She just told me because she didn't think I would do it. So using it as a sign from the shopping gods that if you go shopping, you come out. His car is still there. Then it's eligible to get keyed. The Lord of the... Exactly. The Lord of the clinics. Exactly. Well, we gave him ample time. We were in there for a good hour and a half. And came out and sure turned out his car was still there. So I took the liberty of going and pulling out my key and doing it. Took a couple of scratches that is dorked. Took another one down the hood.

10:14Oh! You went at it. You had like rage. Oh, yeah, I went at it. I took a couple of his dorks plus his fender in the hood. So I don't know how much they came out to, but it was a nice looking machete. He probably feel good. And he came out and he knew exactly who that is. It's really good. I didn't really care that anybody was working. They're probably knew what was going on. Damn, dude. That's brutal. That's brutal. He's... He's putting lose their minds this time of year, man. You really can. You really can. Because everybody has so much more on their to-do list than normal. And we all already pack our schedules so full anyway. So it's like adding, there's just not enough hours in the day to get everything done. And then it takes longer to do the simple things. I don't know. I said this to Jed last week. I mean, it's part of the holiday season to stress yourself out about it. But think about it. I mean, just go back to last 10 years. Have you gotten it all done? And I'm 95% of you will answer that question, yes. So this is all part of the tradition of holiday. You got to stress yourself out about it. But at the end of the day, it's going to get done because it has for the last 20 years.

11:18But you can't think about that when you're... No, because you're still going to like plug through it all. I'm like, you got to get it all done. It's not just going to happen on its own. It's going to happen.