'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

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Sep 20, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Everyone hates when they're trying to finagle a tight spot in a parking lot and their path is blocked by a wayward shopping cart. Is it really so challenging for shoppers to return their carts to the designated areas? Or is walking an extra 20 feet too challenging? Apparently so.

For some, they've made it their mission to find the lazy lumps who are choosing not to return their carts, hoping to change this ludicrous behavior in the only way that cart narcs know how: public humiliation. Over the years, public cart shaming has become a thing. Truthfully, we all can agree that dumping your cart in the parking lot without a care for anyone else's convenience makes you a failure to society, but if they are forced to watch someone else do their dirty work, perhaps things will change.

In this case, one woman took cart shaming into her own hands when she spotted an athletic-looking woman abandon her cart in the open spot next to her. The caveat? The fit woman had to watch in shame as a disabled woman took care of business for her. Now that's some petty revenge.

After this, read on about a guy at a bar who knocked a hot girl's ego down a few pegs when she thought he was hitting on her– but all he wanted was to borrow the barstool next to her.