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'The look on her red face was priceless': Suburban Karen neighbor tries pushing trash on new millennial homeowners, drive-by junk collector puts her in her place

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    "I'll never understand the entitlement of boomers."
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    Neighbor Demands Returned Shopping Cart M Guys. I never thought I'd have a story so soon after joining this sub. I (36F) and hubs (36M) live in a suburban ish neighborhood surrounded by boomers. Mostly because so few people our age own homes. Honestly, about 90% of them haven't been bad and keep to themselves for the most part. It's a quiet street.
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    Randomly a grocery store shopping cart showed up on the sidewalk of our neighbors house. It was very odd, but schools out so maybe it was just a prank from a few streets over. We figured whoever lifted it would either come back for it or it would get picked up on trash day. while it was strange I'm a firm believer in minding your own business.
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    Well, my husband was walking the dogs on the opposite side of the road. when out storms entitled boomer Karen. We've never met this woman (she's a tenant, not the owner who is a nice older man), she parks on an adjacent street since it's a corner house and must enter that way too. We've never crossed paths. She goes up to my husband and demands to know why there is a shopping cart there.
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    Now Reddit, my husband is not a confrontational man, so he just kind of stared at her for a second before saying "how should I know". She points. over at our house and demands to know if he lives there. He says yes and she says "Well Mr X (landlords name) wouldn't do this so you have to take it back." My husband was stunned. This woman starts telling him that since her landlord clearly didn't park a shopping cart there we must have and we need to return it to the store because it
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    might "get washed into the road when it rains and roll down the street and hit her car! And that the other tenant couldn't back his car out of the driveway and it's our responsibility to "do the right thing". (It was about 30 ft away from the driveway) Now my husband told her if she wants to play Nancy Drew she's welcome to but he has better things to do. And before he walked off some random truck pulled up, threw it in their truck bed, and left without a word. The look on her stupid red face wa
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    highoncatnipbrownies • 1d ago Whoever was in that truck is a comic hero and doesn't even know it. 221 Reply
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    BuyMeADrinkPlease 1d ago • Not gonna lie, if someone left a shopping trolley outside my house, I'd take it into the backyard ASAP- those things are workhorses and always come in handy. Those and milk crates. Your supermarket might also have a number you can call to report them as turning up outside your house. The IGA near us was offering
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    $50 if you report them so they could come get them, they are ridiculously expensive to buy, and they were having so many stolen. That was before COVID though, I think they've stopped doing that now. Just to be clear, I wouldn't ever steal one, but I'd have claimed it as mine if it was on my nature strip. I would have totally downloaded a car as well though, so maybe I'm not as good of a person as I like to believe 127 Reply
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    Downtown_Big_4845 1d ago • I had a neighbour who would go shopping and then leave his trolley in front of my house I told him on more than one occasion not to do that if you used it take it back or leave it in front of your own house... he kept doing it until I started throwing any trolley I found in or around the area regardless if it was his or not in his front yard he then stopped. 25 ☐ Reply
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    Pretty-Age-5449 23h ago • I think I'd have been tempted to flip it upside down and say "it can't roll down the street now" and be on my way. ✩ 11 11 Reply
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    tomorrowroad 1d ago • I'll never understand the arrogance of Gen Whatever. I understand your outrage, but not all Boomers walk around with an Entitled chip on their shoulder. I am a Boomer and I treat people with respect. I don't curse the younger crop out of hand because some of them are quite smart, courteous, creative and all around Good Doobies. You live near someone who is just old and cranky and needs to chill. + 48 ☐ Reply
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    • curlyfall78 1d ago I work at WM and there used to be a pawnshop about 1 mile up the road and at one time they were calling us weekly to come get the electric cart a methhead was trying to pawn ↑ 7 B Reply
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    Zym1225 17h ago • Those are expensive. Used to work retail for a major pharmacy chain and the ones we used, which are about 1/3rd the size, cost $150. Large grocery carts have to be $250 at least ↑ 6 ↓ Reply
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    oiseaufeux 14h ago I remember having found a shopping cart at my bus stop. The worst part was that I had not a single grocery stores really close. My closest grocery stores are at least 15 to 20 minutes in car. I still questionned how it got there because no pedestrian would walk that distance with it without being noticed. It disapeared very fast though. ↑ 3 ↓ Reply
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    megola2023 3h ago • In the neighborhood where I grew up (Long Island, NY) there was a grocery store a block away. Lots of people would walk to the store and then push. the grocery cart back to their house, and leave it outside. The grocery store sent a truck around to pick them up (I'm not sure if they did this every day). 423 Reply
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    aminor321 • 7h ago A few years ago I came home after work to find a shopping cart (trolley/buggy) in my front yard under my big tree. I didn't keep it because there was some dude asleep in it. Enjoying the shade said tree.
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    When I got out of my car after parking in my driveway, he awakened a bit and made eye contact with me. I gave an upward-head-nod & just said "nice day for it." He smiled & closed his eyes. I went inside & quickly locked my door. I wasn't about to mess with any guy with a face tattoo. ↑ 13 ☐ Reply ...

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