There’s a big dint in my car - and its from a supermarket trolley.

Why do they build supermarket car parks  on slopes?  Why not on the level?  Do they want to upset us?  Because they do.  Yet again there’s a dint in my car and its because someone has let a trolley crash into it.

Did they leave a note on my windscreen admitting what they’d done and offering to pay for the damage?  Of course they didn’t.  This seems to me to be a growing problem.  People just leave their trolleys anywhere - they’ve stopped bothering to return them to the ‘trolley park’.

There are two solutions:

The first is a hearts and minds thing - how to change people so that they respect one another and so change their behaviour.  Well its not going to happen anytime soon - I fear that things will get worse before they get better.

So the second solution is to fit chains to the trolleys.  The ones where you have to put a pound in the slot before you can release the trolley.  At least then people take them back so that they can get their pounds back.

Some supermarkets are already doing this - so maybe I’ll shop at one of those from now on.