Chez Chesler

I went to the supermarket (Super Stop & Shop, Stoneham, MA.) After I unloaded my groceries into my car, there didn't appear to be a "cart corral", so I left my cart at the edge of the parking spot, between my car and the van next to it. As luck would have, out of the entire parking lot, the operator of that van came up behind me. "You're not going to leave that cart there are you?" she asks. I say "I was planning to, don't they pay someone to come and collect them?" But since she pointed it out I moved my cart, and still finding no corral, I left it near the front of the store. I get back to my car, and even though I'd nosed in the spot opposite my spot was empty, and I prepared to exit forward, when the van operator took her cart and moved it between the spot I was occupying and the spot I was about to drive through. I got out, asked her if we're not playing games, and moved it away. If I'd been quicker I should have moved it in front of her van.