Gold Coast shopping trolley debate!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This the other day. More and more Australians not putting
trolley's back. Recently, someone on Reddit showed a picture of
a trolley taking up the corners of four separate parking spaces,
so it was actually on the four Now EJ would
have been outraged with that. She's not here today because
she's not well, we've got to produce them in the studio.

(00:23):
So I've always been someone that takes the trolley back
religiously because I just feel like that's the right thing
to do.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
So when you see trolley's just left there and floating around,
it's kind of like gets you go to a little bit,
especially like you Sometimes they're left in the end of
the car park, so you could park in there and
you can't get in because the trolley's right there. And
by the way, that trolley that was on the point
of those four was only meters away from one of

(00:49):
the places to push them in, So they just don't care.
They just left it there. So I thought I opened
the phones and to say are you and just be honest,
are you trolley returner or are you a non trolley returner? Now,
mon you said, there's something more to it, and it
does get difficult, and it did come up in some
of the comments we were talking about, But do you

(01:13):
think it's hard with kids?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is very hard with kids. Like I like to
be polite, I've always returned my trolleys prior to kids,
that was fine, but now having a four year old
and a seven month old, I get stuck in the
situation where I tend to put the kids in the car,
put the groceries in, lock the car, and I'm running
to take the trolley back while the kids are in
the car, And I'm like, I always second guess myself,

(01:35):
thinking is this a bad mum move? Are people judging me?
But then I'm like, I'm trying to be polite taking
the trolley back, so I'm like, am I doing the
right thing? Am I doing the wrong thing? But then
if you take the kids with you to return the trolley,
you know what center car parks are like at shopping centers,
they're busy. You're trying to manage a seven month old
and a four year old who's you know, not listening
and not holding the trolley and trying to return it

(01:57):
by doing the good thing. So it's like you're damned
if you do damned if you don't. But I still
do return it with the kids.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
In the car locked, and then you at your finest,
you saying bolt running back to the car pretty.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Much And like my local Almo Coals, it's there's two
lanes between where you return the trolley to where you
park with the parent parking, so it's not like it's
right there. I've got to run across both parking lanes
to kind of get there. But I'm still going, oh,
there is a trolley boy that comes against it. But
I still just can't leave it there, like I just
think it's really.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You still return it? Yeah, I still do? Okay, So
but is getting more difficult? So do you would you
understand a parent not returning it because of that reason?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Completely? Kids have meltdowns, they cry this and that. Like
my little girl's going through separation anxiety at the moment,
so trying to put her in the car and when
she can't see you, she cries. So then you're panicking
running the trolley back, going, oh my god, is she
crying in the car?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
What do you do? We need to prenup your car?
Cut out if you sitting in the car, she's in
the car. Just somehow, just turn around and talk that out.
I'm still there, all right, So what do you think?
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to night and be brutally honest. Even if you don't
return the trolley, We're not going to. Yeah, we just
give us a reason why I would even rather someone
ringing this gay. No, I can't be bothered or I'm lazy,
you know what I mean. You'll have the usual. It's
someone's job. I'm helping them stay. We might get that.
People will say that I reckon, all right, anyway, give

(03:31):
us a call. Let us know