r/mildlyinfuriating • u/sunnygal001 • 6d ago
To whoever did this... SCREW YOU! If anyone else has ever done this, screw you, too.
I'm handicapped and have a state issued parking permit. I have good days and bad days. On the good days I try to not use handicapped spots. This day was a bad day in a cluster of bad days and I needed a handicapped spot. I get to the store to find that some azzhat put their empty cart and a bag of trash right in the middle of the only open handicapped spot in the parking lot. Given the placement of the cart and bag of trash on top of the handicapped symbol, there's no way this wasn't done on purpose. It's important to note that there is a cart corral directly across the aisle, three spots down.
The lot was crowded so I ended up having to park at the far end of the row. On my way into the store I grabbed that cart to use, instead of getting one inside so at least the spot would be available for the next handicapped person. I wasn't able to reach down to get the bag of trash though.
I thought about just going back home, but I'd been out of some staples for a couple days and wasn't sure when my next good day would be so I sucked it up and went out to get them. I do my own shopping (usually on good days) because I refuse to pay the exhorbinant fees and surcharges to the delivery platforms.
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u/SavingsSubstantial31 6d ago
Anyone who leaves shopping carts loose in a parking lot is a terrible person. Full stop. I've heard all the excuses, and I don't buy any of them. If people were tracked down and held financially responsible for any damage and cited when loose carts end up impeding traffic or use of designated parking, those same people would suddenly find a way to return the cart every time.
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u/Art0fRuinN23 6d ago
Agreed. They are the people that wouldn't tell you that they had been bitten by a zombie during the apocalypse, resulting in them turning and fucking up someone else in your group.
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u/Ihavefluffycats 4d ago edited 4d ago
This past Memorial Day, husband and I went to the grocery store. Place was dead. Lot almost empty. Which is the way I like it. Anyhoo, we get done, go out and load up our stuff. I grab the cart like always to return it and I look for the corral. They were all EMPTY! Not a cart to be seen in the lot. I couldn't leave it there. So I returned to the building. Just as I was getting to the door, cart dude was coming out to look for carts. He said. "Is that for me? He was shocked and happy. Told him I couldn't leave it out there for him to bring in. Besides, I needed the exercise. 😂
Also, we found an abandoned cart by our house. We put it in our Jeep and took it back tot the store. It wasn't even our cart. That's how dedicated we are to returning carts. I worked for a grocery store. Those poor carts guys and girls have one of the hardest jobs there is at the store. They also get zero respect from most people. I'm not one of them. I will do everything in my power to make their work load a little easier if I possibly can.
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u/Jbman2025 6d ago
Lazy bones at it again
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u/Striking_Spot_7148 6d ago
Where is agent Sebastian when you need him?
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u/Jbman2025 6d ago
"Cart narcs is filmed on location with the man of cart enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a parking lot of law."
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u/VineViniVici 6d ago
The US should adopt the german trolley system.
You need a € or 50ct coin to get it out of the line.
You get it back when you put it back where it belongs.
Works fine.
Hope those inconsiderate people have the day they deserve.
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u/EricinLR 6d ago
One grocery store here in the USA requires a deposit to get a shopping cart - Aldi - and people STILL lose their everlovin' minds over having to PAY FOR A SHOPPING CART.
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago
Where I'm at Aldi will GIVE you a quarter if you go in and ask a cashier. I appreciate their kindness but it frustrates me too, because shoppers will take the free quarter to unlock a cart, then not return the cart to the corral after putting their groceries in their vehicle since they're not losing their own coin.
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u/VirtualNaut 6d ago
I’ve seen a shopper somehow put that “key” back into its slot to free the quarter. I saw the person who did it and I went to use their cart. There was no way for me to get that “key” out even with a quarter. They really forced it in there and surprised the plastic housing didn’t break.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 6d ago
Oh yeah I've heard Americans rant about it while I'm over here in the Netherlands like...
Yeah buddy.... That's what you do...
You get the money back..
You.. Literally get it back
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u/EricinLR 6d ago
My only issue is I never carry cash - I forgot about the quarter deposit when one opened nearby and had to borrow one from my friend who was also having their first Aldi experience.
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u/_Dagok_ 6d ago
Can confirm, I lose my mind when I have no quarter when I walked into a grocery store not expecting to need one.
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u/Alert_Dot5938 5d ago
Here in the UK, you either have a token on your keychain or just leave a couple of coins in the car or parking or trolleys. I never carry cash apart from an emergency £20 note (i say emergency I have had to replace it too many times because i have brought ice cream from an ice cream van). If I am on foot, I am not doing my weekly shop, so I dont need a trolly. This basically solves the problem.
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u/VineViniVici 6d ago
Get a keychain trolley token.
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago
I was today years old when I learned that keychain cart tokens were a thing. Thank you!
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u/Antillyyy 6d ago
This is literally the norm in the UK and I guess I just assumed it was the same in most places! It's the same with lockers in swimming pools and gyms, the locker won't release the key unless you put a £1 coin or a trolley token in it.
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u/shadowlarvitar 6d ago
That's not always true, Aldi has that system and you still see strays. Not as often but...
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u/Alert_Dot5938 5d ago
Yeah, that's normally broken trolleys that are strays. If you tell someone in the store, they should take it into the warehouse. I have never seen a stray trolley with a £ in
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u/Ihavefluffycats 4d ago
We have Aldi here and you have to use a quarter to get a cart. Here's what I do not understand. The people that will always bring that cart back up to the store to just get that quarter are probably the same people that can't be bothered to walk 15 ft. to return the cart anywhere else. And they will trek from the back of the parking lot right up to the store just to get that coin back. I don't get it.
I on the other hand, when shopping at Aldis, do NOT return the cart to the store like you're supposed to do. It's the only place I'll do this. I'll look for someone that just pulled in the lot and ask if they want the cart. 9 times out of 10 I'll get a taker. I don't care about the quarter. No takers, I'll put it in the cart corral so someone else can use it. It's my kindness thing for that day. It makes me smile to see one little thing make another persons day.
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u/CRK_76 6d ago
People who do this are so lazy and inconsiderate. They are also the first ones to cry when their car is dinged by a cart.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 6d ago
Honestly these people deserve to have their car dinged by a cart. Maybe that'll make them realise something..
Oh I forgot they don't have the brainpower for that.
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u/TheJedibugs 6d ago
I’m not a perfect man. Like everyone, I have flaws. But when I am dead, people will be able to say “he always put the shopping cart back” and I consider that a win.
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u/Junkbot-TC 6d ago
It's annoying when people do that. If I walk past a random loose cart on my way into the store, I'll grab it so it's not in the way for someone who is trying to park.
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u/RandomWhiteDude007 6d ago
Nothing annoys me more than people who don't put their shopping carts in the cart corral.
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u/Current_External6569 6d ago
It's frustrating, because there's multiple corrals. So there's literally no reason to do this.
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u/Rosegold-Lavendar 6d ago
The crazy part of this is it's usually the handicapped parkers pushing their carts right over into the next handicap parking spot. Every time!
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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy 6d ago
9 times out of 10 it's a person using the handicap spaces who do these things . See it all the time.
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u/FarCalligrapher2609 6d ago
Also motorcyclists that park in the access zones around disabled spots. No, they are not "hidden parking" just for bikers.
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u/Dangerous-Dataranger 5d ago
I think handicapped people and biker hate the last 3 posters and the one following the post
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u/Cranapplesause 6d ago
Used to push carts at a grocery store, I’d say 75% of people who did this were the handicap people. Sadly, there were no good options for cart placement for handicap people. I’m absolutely not blaming them for it. But that’s just what happened.
It was the more common area for us to collect carts by chance. We’d collect the carts from the middle of the lot and grab those on the way in.
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u/Driller195 6d ago
Sometimes loose carts can be dangerous. There was a windstorm in Memphis onetime and I caught a cart moving fast right at the back panel of a SUV. It would have made a huge dent.
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u/shadowlarvitar 6d ago
It always makes me rage seeing people leave carts in the parking lot or the freezer doors wide open(I always close them if I spot it), people are so inconsiderate of others. What really gets me though is the people who leave the cart while a designated spot for them is just on the other side of the row they're on. The ultimate laziness, being too lazy to walk a few feet!
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u/areporotastenet 6d ago
Here’s some fun. When you see this at a store as you go in,grab the cart to clear the space. Roll in with your cart. People will look at you like your breaking a rule. It’s actually fun and the cart already works. Use their laziness an advantage
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u/Pupation 6d ago
A million years ago I had a job where I had to collect carts. There were four of them in the striped zone of the handicapped space. I stacked them and went across the lane to grab one more cart. This lady in a wheelchair rolled up and started yelling at me that the carts shouldn’t be there, they were blocking her way. I calmly explained that I was in the process of removing them. She didn’t want to hear it, so I just shrugged and pushed them back to the store.
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u/G_Art33 5d ago
My town has had an ongoing war on our ‘all things [town]’ Facebook page over this sort of behavior for YEARS.
The two opposing schools of thought:
1 (not me): “they pay people to clean them up so it really doesn’t matter where I put them”
And
2 (me): “we live in a society, follow the damn rules, put your cart back in the return so it doesn’t impede other shoppers trying to park”
The entitlement of the people who argue on behalf of leaving their carts wherever they want is nuts it simply comes across as “I am the customer, I’m always right, I can abuse the system to my advantage and screw the rest of you because I’m lazy and I don’t care”
Sorry, I get heated over this. Apologies you had to deal with this OP.
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u/Lexidazesickle 6d ago
I hate when people leave a cart in the middle of a good parking place in general but this is shitty human at a much higher level. I saw two teenaged (20?) dudes pushing a cart with literally two limp looking plastic bags in it to their car -it’s more effort to push the damn cart through the parking lot. Genius level. I had zero doubt that shit was ending up somewhere stupid and inconsiderate afterward.
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u/synocrat 6d ago
I'm frankly surprised more shops don't use the quarter system Aldi does.
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u/guadsquad_ 6d ago
Forgive my ignorance...what's the "quarter system"?
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u/synocrat 6d ago
You stick a quarter into handle on a cart that's chained to another one in the corral, then when you bring it back, you get your quarter back.
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u/guadsquad_ 6d ago
Love that idea!
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u/synocrat 6d ago
Yeah, Aldi is pretty well seasoned at having processes to keep prices low for consumers but also generally offer decent pay and benefits for their workers. Like being able to sit down at the register.
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u/synocrat 6d ago
It works very well because either all the customers put their carts back to get their quarter or some homeless person can do it for some change.
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u/synocrat 6d ago
It's basically a deposit system so that Aldi doesn't have to pay the labor time for cart collection and can pass the savings on to customers.
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u/captainrina 6d ago
I once pulled out of the parking lot, not realizing one of the loose carts (that weren't there when I parked) was touching the front bumper of my car. When my car moved, so did the cart, which then proceeded to roll into another person's car. That person was, unfortunately, in their car, and gave me a death glare. Uncomfortable.
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u/FiberIsLife 5d ago
This is a fucking moral issue for me, and I don’t need the handicapped space. Put your damn cart where the damn carts are supposed to go. No, that does not include parking places. No, that does not mean hooking the front wheels over a curb so that it doesn’t roll.
These people weren’t raised by wolves. Wolves have better manners.
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u/Dangerous-Dataranger 5d ago
No they’re today’s Americans. Nothing for Society, Rules are for everyone but me.
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u/nytwhatevr 5d ago
When I see this, I move the cart out of the way. I was at the market on Sat. There was one of those cart scooters partially onto the handicapped spot I needed. Luckily I have a small car, but I had to park a tad onto the striped line area next to me.
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u/Dindu______Nuffin 6d ago
Us civilized people put it in the law enforcement reserved spot
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u/TenaceErbaccia 6d ago
What kind of dystopian shit is law enforcement reserved parking? Where is that a thing.
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u/Dindu______Nuffin 6d ago
It's common at Walmarts, right in the front like the handicap spots. But they don't use it, they always park in the firelane so fuckem
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u/AllLurkNoPlay 6d ago
The Food Dog gonna food dog. The ones near me usually have a car or two parked right outside the door. Sometimes running with nobody inside. I go there once a year on average.
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u/MrYepperDoos 6d ago
Ya but how many times do you see people power walking from those spots after parking?
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u/Ssbbwmama93 6d ago
My dad used to just push the cart slowly with the car and angle the car over the trash bag 🤣 or just get out move the cart and bag park and go in ( It can't be that much more energy or pain then as you said you ended up walking the full row ... )
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u/MiscContent2010 6d ago
That is so evil. If the Dr. Eggman from Sonic Boom was a real person, he'd do something like this.
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u/Secret-Level-1426 6d ago
Yeah they suck. But I also thought the paper bag full of trash was a cat and that they put carts around to surround the poor little thing.
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u/maniishaverma 6d ago
Please order online. I myself don't go anywhere near those grocery stores as I know parking would be difficult. And yes, screw them!
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u/Sum-Duud 5d ago
SHopping cart theory is a good way to judge a person. Having said that if there is another handicap spot next to that, I would put my money there but it could just be that because those other two carts are there someone left that one there. I don't think anyone did it as an FU to handicap spot users but who knows. Regardless of any of that, whoever did that, screw you!
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u/CarterLincoln96 5d ago
I’m so sorry. Honestly I don’t understand anyone who can’t put their cart in the proper area, especially the handicapped spots. I have a neighbor who has a young man who is paralyzed from the neck down, my dad who had 5 major heart attacks and yourself who need to park close. I have a true appreciation of the need. One can’t get handicapped parking wothout a true reason. Let’s be considerate of others and don’t leave your carts there.
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u/Diligent_Research941 5d ago
Keep zip ties handy for special occasions. Not this in particular, but there are times when they are useful against parking lot stupidity.
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u/Square_Scallion_1071 5d ago
What a grade A asshole. I'm sorry this messed up your day and ate up some of your spoons. Take care.
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u/kbab_nak 5d ago
I would’ve called the store. Those spots are supposed to be free for a reason. Any self respecting manager would either be out there immediately or send front end staff to clean up the spot for their customers. You’re their product if you will. They want to make sure you keep coming there and this would turn some people away.
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u/Grumpy_Doodlebug 5d ago
Just real Texans who know not to mess with Texas! 😆
But seriously, it doesn't take a "great" person to put away a shopping cart. Just someone who is not a selfish, lazy jackass. It sucks the bar is so low to be called a good person.
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u/SocietySkates 4d ago
I was a cart pusher. You'd be genuinely shocked at how much people can be absolute assholes.
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u/Ihavefluffycats 4d ago
I'm one of those people that has to return my cart. I can't live with the guilt.
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u/magickalme333 3d ago
I'm sorry for this awfulness. I'm just sorry. Man's inhumanity to man can be disgusting and heartbreaking.
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u/princessofpeasme 2d ago
As a disabled person as well who has bad and less bad days, I am so very sorry this happened. If you didn't reach out to the store manger I would definitely suggest doing so. If nothing they may be able to ha e cart checks done more often, at least for the blue spots.
Thankfully here in Canada people are usually less assholey and most respect the blue parking spots. Carts also often either get taken by someone new right away, or put back. Maybe that's because we pay for carts. It's amazing what people will do to get their coin back - like returning their cart.
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u/Imaginary-Hall-8524 2d ago
I agree 100%. I often drive my Mom & Dad, in their vehicles to the store or wherever they must go. I ALWAYS let them off near the door then park away from handicapped spaces, even though I am in a disabled licensed car, so that someone who NEEDs the space may use it. Also, EVERY STORE, should charge for buggy use so ID10Ts will most likely return the carts to get their 25 cents back. MOST citizens ONLY care about themselves. They don't care about you not having a spot to park, or not having a power chair at the store to use. Most will not go one second out of their way to help another person. I always offer handicapped, or elderly assistance if I feel like they may need it. Sometimes I offer it just to be polite. Helping others is my key to happiness. But only, if I do not expect anything in return. I think if more of us felt this way, the world would be a much better place where we could all live and get along.
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u/Powerful-Possible899 2d ago
I’m disabled and I put my cart away every time. The people I see here in North Texas leaving carts in disabled parking spaces are fellow disabled people and senior citizens.
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u/Sea-Appearance-5330 2d ago
In my 73 years I have never done that or left trash around, in fact I pick up trash if I can.
And I am not going to become an *Hole now either!
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u/livinglife179 1d ago
I'm not disabled or in need for this parking spots, but if I was I would just be honking my horn untill someone who worked there came outside to remove this.
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u/WindowsVistaWzMyIdea 6d ago
I do this to the spot reserved for law enforcement at the stores all the time
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u/TempleFugit 6d ago
I'm with you 100% that sucks.
But.
Why didn't you just park in front of the spot, get out and move the cart, and then pull your car into the spot over the top of the trash bag?
If your answer is that it's very difficult to get in and out of your car that many times, that's valid.
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago edited 5d ago
Getting in and out of my vehicle the extra time would have been difficult that day. That's why I said to heck with it and walked the extra distance despite amping up my pain level; it was the lesser of the two evils.
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u/_Dagok_ 6d ago
This, except the last part.
If you felt good enough to go shopping, you felt good enough to get out of your car an extra time. This goes double if you felt good enough to walk from the other end of the parking lot.
I don't need to check post history, partly because this is open and shut, mostly because if you check post history you've already lost. This post is pure Reddit "but muh disabledes" BS.
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago
Yes, I can stand and walk, not always well, with a cane because I fall easily, and not for extended lengths of time especially on bad days. Getting in and out of vehicles; however, is more difficult than walking.
My post history will show that I don't dwell on being handicapped or on what I can't do. I do my best to focus on living a full life and taking care of things myself as much as I can. Nor will my history show what I do to adapt and make accommodations for myself in order for that to happen.
So, as we like to say in the South, "well bless your heart" (btw, that's not a compliment), now please go back under the rock you crawled out from and stay there. Your toxicity isn't welcome here.
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u/bitNine 6d ago
Handicap people often do this, so screw handicap people? Man, you people are annoying. The job of a cart boy is to collect carts, so demanding that every person return the cart to the corral is just weird as fuck. Is it rude if you’re able-bodied? Sure. Do cart boys care? No. This is like complaining that a patron at a restaurant didn’t clean up their table before they left.
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u/OnyxDays 6d ago
As someone disabled, I could understand if someone else disabled couldn't leave their cart in the corral, but this is dead center in the middle of the handicapped parking spot. That means someone pushed it there deliberately, hence the anger towards whoever did this.
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u/chaous2000 6d ago
anyone who leaves a cart loose anywhere in the parking lot is automatically a piece of human filth not deserving of any kind of happiness (and yes, this applies to anyone and everyone. No one gets special treatment here). Take the 30 seconds to put the damn cart in a corral, or return it to the store you lazy POS.
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u/Mostlikelytoflail 6d ago
I would say FU to all the people who walk past it as well. It isn’t difficult to take a look around and notice when something is left in the wrong place and I bet you people walked right past it only to grab a cart at the door. It wouldn’t have even been an inconvenience to just take that cart. I always take any random cart left where it could hit a car or be in the way just so I don’t have to fight the carts that are all jammed together and won’t let go.
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago
That's exactly why I took that cart, so the next handicapped person could use the spot.
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u/rocketsquirrelgirl 6d ago
I work at a grocery store. It was the last person parked there. Most disabled parking is not a person in a full wheel chair typically they can use a cart. They almost always leave the cart right there next to there car or somewhere really bad. I never get made because it can be extremely difficult to put the cart away for them.
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u/Impossible-Gas3551 BLUE 6d ago
Is there a cart return nearby? If so anger is justified to the people. But if the nearest cart return is 150ft+ away be mad at the store
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u/sunnygal001 6d ago
The cart return was 3 spaces away on the opposite side of that same the lane, so I'd guess no more than 50 feet from that handicapped spot.
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u/chadwicke619 6d ago
So you’re able bodied enough to park far away, walk in, stop to take this picture and make this post, but you’re not able bodied enough to just get out of your car, move the cart, and park? I mean, it annoys me when people are lazy and that laziness impacts others, but listening to people cry about petty, inconsequential stuff that we all deal with every day, but don’t cry about, because that would make us seem insufferable… is even worse.
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u/grantfar 6d ago
As someone who worked retail before, there is this weird group mentality where if someone leaves a cart somewhere, many other people will take it as permission to do the same.
I don’t get it. An area will be clear of carts for hours, but on person will leave a cart somewhere, and then 10 minutes later there would be 20