‘Does It Look Like I Care if My Car Gets Hit?’ : Entitled Lady Double Parks Cart in Handicapped Spaces, Bystander Plays Vigilante, Ultimately Blocking Her as Revenge

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Eleonora Bader
Feb 7, 2023 1:30 PM EST

We all believe that if we witnessed something terrible taking place, we'd certainly take some sort of action to help the person in trouble. Then why are there so many videos rampant online showing what psychologists like to call 'The Bystander Effect'? For those of you who don't know, this term, otherwise known as 'Bystander Apathy', is when something happens right in front of you and a bunch of other people's eyes, yet none of you step in or do anything. Why? For some weird reason, the presence of all these other human beings creates a diffusion of responsibility.

Secondly, we feel this need to behave in correct and socially acceptable ways. Basically, when others fail to react, we take this as a sign that a response is not needed or appropriate. What happened in this particular case is actually not a case of 'Bystander Apathy' but rather the opposite. Yay for modern heroes, am I right? Whoop whoop.

We all know of the existence of jerks. It's a part of life. Some individuals are not very considerate of their surroundings and find very elaborate ways to justify themselves for their selfish behavior. One woman stepped into a situation she deemed ridiculously inappropriate. She saw a rude and entitled lady parking her shopping cart in the middle of two handicapped spaces, and told her off. When that didn't work, she felt she had no choice but to enact some petty revenge. What ensued was pretty hilarious.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/MrsBrightssside 15 hours ago Vigilante parking lot justice.
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 02
    Font - Hey Reddit! Some context: 1. Last week the drivers' side passenger area of my van got sideswiped and the guy did a hit and run. It still runs, but my kids' door is collapsed in and we haven't been able to afford to get it fixed just yet. It looks pretty bad, but looks worse than it is.
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  • 03
    Font - 2. People who leave shopping carts in parking spaces are a personal pet peeve of mine. So I'm sick, cold, not Cd, and I go to my local Walgreens for some heavy DayQuil and Tylenol for my kids. I walk out and this woman my mom's age (I'm 39) takes her shopping cart and
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 04
    Font - very deliberately parks it in the painted over section between the only two handicapped spaces in the lot. Like, the part that's supposed to be left clear so people can get out. It's literally 15 steps to the door of the Walgreens. I reflexively call out, “In the HANDICAPPED space?? Really???" She goes, "Yeah, I know..." and usually
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 05
    Font - at this point (because I am one to always tell people, "the door is right there") people get embarrassed and walk their cart to the door. Not this woman. She launches into a whole soliloquy about how she thought about the placement because it's close to the
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 06
    Font - door so the single person working inside can grab it easily, and she put it there, on the "passenger" side so people can still pull in and they probably won't have anyone with them anyway (wtf??? People with placards are loners now?) and anyway she gets it because her husband has
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 07
    Font - had several bypasses so she understands how these things work. Btw all this took her at least twice as long to say as it would have taken for her to walk the darn cart to the door. Me: "Well. Glad you've got that all justified for yourself." Her: (walking to her car) "I don't need to be justified, I'm in love!" (No idea what this woman
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 08
    Font - is talking about.) Me: (Getting into my car, which happens to be parked across the aisle from her) No, I meant your rudeness." Her: Literally laughs as she climbs in her car. So I back up and angle my car like I'm pulling out of the parking lot, but
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 09
    Font - instead stop right in front of her hood. The banged in side of my car is in full view. Go ahead lady. Does it look like I care if my car gets hit? She goes nuts inside her car, yelling and leaning on the horn, I just turn off my engine and visibly pull out a book. The cart got put back.
    via u/MrsBrightssside
  • 10
    Font - MITT demimod2000 · 8 hr. ago My son has been working at a grocery store for a few months now as a courtesy clerk aka Bag Boy. He now understands why I go to such lengths to put the carts back into the corral. He gets so mad when he has to go
    via u/demimod2000
  • 11
    Font - all over the shopping complex and find the carts. It is good exercise, but it is dangerous with cars speeding around and the homeless people who frequently steal from the store (including the carts).
    via u/demimod2000
  • 12
    Font - whatever_998+1 7 hr. ago My daughter is in a wheelchair. I have had this same discussion as OP has with miss entitled. Person said well I like having a cart there for me to grab. Pied me off....but not as much as the guy with the motorcycle who
    via u/whatever_998
  • 13
    Font - parked in the stripped section (the space reserved for the person in the chair to get out of the van). I told him had I had my van there I would have dropped the 300+ pound lift on his bike. All of us are going to need those spaces one day. Respect your neighbor.
    via u/whatever_998
  • 14
    Font - olddirtycat3000 10 hr. ago Yeah, my mother needs a walker or a cart to get around so she like it when a cart is left in reach of a handicap space and leaves one there when she is done. I understand but it drives me nuts.
    via u/olddirtycat3000
  • 15
    Font - I think that people who don't use the cart coral get one free pass then come Singapore-style justice. 42 ↓ Reply Share ShireHorseRider Straight to jail. +1.6 hr. ago
    via u/olddirtycat, u/ShireHorseRider
  • 16
    Font - +1.8 hr. ago American grocery stories need to copy Europe's method of requiring a coin to use a cart. And you need to put the cart back and there's a chain with a key on every cart that inserts right when you put the cart back. It locks the cart again while also ejecting your coin (usually a 1 eur coin or a store brand coin). UnPainAuChocolat
    via u/UnPainAuChocolat
  • 17
    Font - Americans need to be taught a lesson. I have pictures of American parking lots full of shopping carts left randomly everywhere. I follow the cart narc on youtube. Fun channel but he's fighting a losing battle. 4.1 7 Reply Share
    via u/UnPainAuChocolate

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