Please keep the motorized shopping carts inside the businesses that supply them for people with mobility issues. I went to that big, blue box store recently. When we entered, there were none to be found where for the past month or so there were at least seven of them there to use. I was lucky enough to find one for me to use near the other entrance. When we left there were two of those carts just sitting outside.

Somehow the people who were using them made it inside to get them yet they can’t be nice enough to return them and plug them in to keep the battery charged up. Where they were parked inside for the past month or so there were enough outlets to plug them into but the other day most of those outlets were gone. If a person needs to use the carts to get to their vehicle and cannot return them, they can ask a store employee to return it for them. Where has common courtesy gone where people thought about someone else besides themselves?

Also I saw a vehicle parked on the striped yellow lines that are around handicap parking spaces. Granted the vehicle did have a handicap license plate but according to the state police no one can use this area for parking, including a handicap vehicle. What if someone who has a rear or side entry is next to it? That person now has to wait for whoever parked there to return so that they can finally leave.

So please leave or return the motorized carts back inside, where they should stay, and watch where you are parking. Give someone, like myself, a little hope there is still kindness in this world.

 

Craig Pellerin

Waterville

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