Leaving your grocery cart in parking stalls?

[masterfins]

It started to rain while I was leaving the grocery store and I intentionally left my daughter in the car to wheel the buggy to the front, while thinking about this thread.

I don't know how many times a person has been struck with lighting while pushing a shopping cart, but I'm thinking it's close to non-existent.  If you have that much fear you should wait in the store for the storm to pass.  Typically lighting strikes the highest point in the area, so a lighting bolt would be aiming for you more than it would the shopping cart.  Not to mention it would be more likely to hit a light pole in the lot, than a person pushing a cart.  But anything is possible, I know of a runner who was jogging on a track during a small storm and he was hit by lighting, it blew one of his sneakers right off his foot when it went through him.

[Dave Gray]

I think too much of my lightning concerns are being litigated in this thread.

I don't make a habit of being out in lightning in general, and I've never had to deal with pushing a cart in lightning.  I was simply trying to outline a reason someone might abandon their cart.

And even in that situation, it isn't necessarily because the cart is metal or even lightning (although that's part of it).  In Florida, we sometimes have to run to the car real quick in the rain (or lightning) while you're getting poured on and standing in water.  In general, it's acceptable to do whatever you have to in order to reduce your time in those conditions.  That's all.