'Abandoned shopping carts are my pet peeve': Cart narcs unite when a disabled woman publicly shames a shopper by laboriously returning the stranger's cart

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    Human body - Posted by u/crackinmypants 1 day ago Leave your cart? Wait while the disabled lady pushes it to the corral.
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    Font - I recently broke my wrist, and am now sporting a bright purple cast on my arm. It's slowed me down a bit, but I'm still driving, doing grocery shopping etc., just a little bit slower, and mostly using one hand. A few days ago, I went to the
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    Font - grocery store to pick up a few items, and was walking towards the store when I saw a rather fit looking woman zip to her car with a a cart full of bags, quickly unload her groceries, then leave her cart
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    Font - parked in the empty spot next to her. She hopped into her car and started it, and just as I got past her car, put it in reverse. Since abandoned shopping carts are my pet peeve, I grabbed her cart with
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    Font - my good arm as I walked by and very slowly and laboriously, with my cast prominently displayed, began pushing it towards the corral. I was juuuuust far enough out into the road that she couldn't get around me and had to wait
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    Font - behind me while I struggled to the corral and slotted her cart into place. When she finally did get the chance to drive by me and exit the parking lot, she wouldn't even look at me. It was gloriously petty, and I
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    Font - hope I made her feel guilty for at least a moment or two. I most certainly wasted any time she saved by leaving her cart. Edit: For those who are flaming me for doing this; I took a moment of
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    Font - her time for doing something most of us really dislike, took care of her responsibility, and freed up a convenient spot for someone. I've been stuck parking a vehicle loaded with small kids way the f out
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    Font - because of shopping carts left in convenient spots. So yes it p es me off. As far as the semantics of me being disabled or not, outwardly, I do look disabled at this point. Injured might be more appropriate term but it's already written. Was I petty? Yes. See the sub name.
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    Font - Dragonrider Trainee 1 day ago How hard is it to put a measly cart back? If you're getting groceries at all, then you have 60 seconds to put it back on top of loading them into your car. Good for you OP.
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    Font - rovingdad 20 hr. ago I have had this debate before plenty of times. My position is, if you can push a loaded cart 300 yards shopping, you can push an empty one 200 feet--less if you're smart enough to park near the corral.
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    Font - Most retorts go along the lines of: their disability drains all their energy shopping and they have no choice but to abandon the cart because they don't have the energy to return it to the cart corral.
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    Font - 321Tomo 16 hr. ago The cart narcs channel on YouTube is hilarious, the whole array of reactions of people being called out on their inexcusable behaviour:
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    Font - last_rights 21 hr. ago I hate taking carts back to the corral because I have kids. So do I put the kids in the car and leave them in an on/off vehicle while I run the cart back? Take them with me and struggle with the older child while carrying the heavy infant/car seat combo and my purse?
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    Font - So I always park next to the corral in the back. No one parks there and I get to easily put my cart back.
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    Font - GeeWhiskers 15 hr. ago I know it's probably psychological, but it feels like less work to park a little further from the store entrance and closer to a cart corral.
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    Font - Significant Cookie85 19 hr. ago I once shamed a guy getting into a jaguar about leaving his cart behind. He then claimed he had holes in his shoes and as it was raining he'd get his feet wetter. Driving a Jag and you have holes in your soles? Priorities...
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    Font - StreetTailor 7596 - 17 hr. ago Apparently very, very hard. Lots of idiots taking their bags out of the cart in Kroger and leaving the cart sitting inside the entrance - 20 feet from where they got them coming in.
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    Font - Then, at the corral, dozens of abandoned carts parked nearby all AROUND the corral rather than nested inside each other in the corral like they're supposed to be. This
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    Font - was at about 9:30 AM. If they didn't have employees straightening things out every half hour it would have quickly ended up blocking the entire parking aisle.
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    Font - MonkeyBrain3561. 1 day ago LPT: Always return your grocery cart. 206 Reply Share seraphim343 · 20 hr. ago Life's best test of altruism.
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    Smile - gravy_dad 19 hr. ago A test only a minority seem to be able to pass
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    Shopping cart - "How hard is it to put a cart back?"

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