I have an irrational fear that someone is going to do this to me whenever I have to park the cart to go use the bathroom - what if one small object is removed while I’m peeing, and I don’t even notice until I get all the way home?!
The total opposite of this happened once, and it was genuinely one of the weirdest experiences of my life. I was in the grocery store looking at packaged meats, and another lady comes up and parks her cart next to mine to look at them too. She starts making some choices, loading her arms up, but I’m not really paying attention because I’m comparing prices and thinking over my own selections… Until suddenly she starts putting the meat that she has chosen on top of my groceries, in my cart - that looked nothing like her empty cart, which she then grabbed the handle on and pushed away while I stood there watching, absolutely bewildered by what had just happened.
I did not buy the meats she had chosen for me, and I live in both fear and hope that our paths might someday cross again.
Not to make you more anxious about it, but I have a story you’re not going to like:
Back in uni, several years ago, I went to the movie theater with a couple friends. Being the broke ass students we were, we didn’t buy anything to eat or drink while watching the movie.
Anyway, we were searching for our seats when all of a sudden we saw an abandoned tray with a popcorn and soda, completely untouched, so we took it.
I had told the story about the abandoned tray in the movies a couple times since as a nice thing that happened to me. Until last month, when I was telling the story to my wife and her parents, and they said “what if the owner went to the bathroom before the movie started”.
That’s when I realized that me and my friends didn’t find the tray, but rather someone possibly went to the bathroom only to come back to their seat and find their food/drinks stolen.
Her version of that story is that some mysterious stranger swapped all the items in her cart with some random nonsense while she turned away for a second to grab some meat.
This is legit terrifying. No one deserves and I solicited meating like this.
Sounds like a bad YouTube prank.
Learned this working a Black Friday once. Store didn’t care who paid for the merchandise.
True story, I was grocery shopping and accidentally walked off with another shopper’s full cart. I Pushed theirs around for several aisles before I realized it. I went back and got my cart, and wonder to this day if the other shopper ever got their cart back.
Did you not take their cart back to where you found it??
I didn’t know when or it happened I took it. I parked it in the front near the registers hoping they would see it.
Life is much more than just law. Society, morals, friendship, love, kindness, fairness etc.
I’ve actually been told this earnestly by more than one idiot 😂
You can actually just take their whole cart out without paying and the police will arrest them for stealing instead of you!
This is how you can get a mom killed.
That a dood one. Had me rolling!
It still steal because other person have already paid part of the price for it. The price is time, energy to get that stuff and put in their cart.
If you want to get stuff from other people cart, you should ask, and tip that person $ for their work.
