[Howie66]

Quarter or not, I always take my cart to the cart area.

[moovova]

You’re a good person!

[I-ambush]

There is an art to the shopping cart return: you must stand at the end of the cart return area and push the cart so it nests perfectly with the other carts in the rack.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I always bring mine back to where I got it...inside the store. I need the exercise.

On a rare occasion when I'm feeling lucky, I'll take a long shot at the Cart Corral in the parking lot to see if I can judge the break and get the speed right and get my cart to nestle inside the last cart inside the Corral.

I call it Cart Putting. One time I hit it right on the nose...a decent break to the left...and drained it from 50 ft.
The guy next to me getting in his car watched and commented. "Nice shot there Mr. Palmer."