I can't be the only person that does this can I?

[goneape]

I don't do the noises thing, but I do love a bit of supermarket grand prix.

I take the racing line everywhere and do lifesavers just walking down the high street. There may also be some rubbing when faced with those big units or the pedestrianised 40 mph brigade.

I find the push chair oversteers excellently in the wet too, it's quite satifying entering the shop carrying a little too much speed then peeling off with the back wheels sliding over the lino...

Baby goes "brrm brrm" in the car and likes Motors TV. She's in training early on.

[Hooli]

DottyMR2 said:

I also like to pretent I'm on a bombing run when returning the trolley. Release the trolley from distance and try and glide it into the trolley returns. For extra cool points, turn away before you know it's in. A Tiger Woods fist pump is optional.

Now that is a challenge from over four parking spaces away

[Bonefish Blues]

Yes you should grow up and start virtual fly rod casting like us grown ups.

[otolith]

Double haul mandatory, obvs.

[ArnieVXR]

Inspired thread

Time for a new forum or two:

"Shopping trolley drifters"
"Infantile car noise broomers and vrooomers"

Yes, I do get the tail out on the shopping trolley

And I've been known to make the noises (albeit quitely) of spooling the turbos and jumping into stage when mentally walking through the next launch.

[SkinnyP]

Yep, I walk round the house making V10 noises. I like to think I am a BMW M5.

[Bonefish Blues]

otolith said:

Double haul mandatory, obvs.

Of course, got to get that line speed for those long casts in the bread aisle.

[otolith]

Bonefish Blues said:

Of course, got to get that line speed for those long casts in the bread aisle.

Wouldn't want to look like an idiot, after all.

[PositronicRay]

I'm very rarely invited shopping. But I do make like a superbike on the karzi, not often with rearsets though.

[TimS2000]

I love a bit of trolley oversteer and j-turns
Best bit is to try and connect your 4 wheel slides when you do a dog leg across the main aisle

[Jaroon]

I usually use a sliding hand gesture at automatic doors, accompanied by a Darth Vader breathing noise. If my son looks at me bemusedly, I mumble something about the force being strong in this one.

[bennyboysvuk]

I've not been in charge of a trolley for a long time. My boy's Maclaren however is sideways at every opportunity. It's been much easier since these autumnal conditions. It irritates me that one day it'll have interfering TC or DSC.

Maclaren - no other make would do, I did check for competitors such as Ferraree though before buying.

[R2T2]

I thought I was the only one that did this!

In the supermarket I often do cheeky little oversteers into the beer isle or the bread section as there are lovely turns there. I usually get met by the OH telling me to stop being a knob. So I end up doing blow off turbo noises in her ear and leg it. Or pick stuff up and put it in the trolley without her noticing. That's fun. Especially when it looks like she's buying Anusol.

[thatdude]

I shift gears (usual H pattern) when I'm walking around

Running up the stairs I let it hit the limiter in 3rd before going down the box (usually imitating a high-revving IL4 cylinder motorcycle at this point)

And I work my left hand when in a crowd of people like I'm slipping a clutch on a motorcycle in slow traffic

[Coatesy351]

As long as no one sits in the checkout queue with the brakes on dazzling the trolley drivers behind.

[R6VED]

I don't make any noises, but I do play with the trolley :-)

I have 2 small children and the older one likes it when I do 360's - she shouts "WEEEEEE" at the top of her voice whilst my 15 week old son looks a little unsure :-)

Children = the best excuse to dick about at every opportunity.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Walking around the supermarket today, I did experiment with air braking. I do believe that when your hands are placed so they wrap around the side of the trolley, opening your fingers out in to the air stream has a noticible effect on cornering stability. I mean, plane wings have those flappy bits on them for just such a purpose. I am still to work out how to extend the wing flappy bit dynamically, as they do when they come in to land, but I think with a bit of prastice the noise can be replicated vocally.

[grumpy52]

This is the veteran trolly surfing thread ?
Or just the walking and learning the dynamics until bravery (sillyness) lets you take both feet off the ground ?
Grumpy( aged 59 1/2)
Always come to a halt sideways across the line .

[Swanny87]

When I'm walking inside the Underground I like to take the racing line as I'm walking through tunnels. Kinda the same.

[sebhaque]

I love the trolley Grand Prix. I occasionally go as far as to return a trolley and get another one if my previous chariot has wheel-wobble.

Guilty of the airport cart handbrake turns as well, I have also overcooked it once or twice and thrown suitcases all over the floor.

Costco's trolleys are strange in that the front wheels are fixed but the back wheels spin. Catches loads of people out as you're effectively driving around in reverse. So, to counteract this, I turn the trolley 180 degrees and push it around backwards so I can nail those racing lines. Met a bloke coming the other way doing the same thing and shared a knowing nod.

I also love using pallet trucks as personal scooters, although this is normally met with extreme disdain by whoever controls H&S in the area.