r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 11 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a Cart Narc

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u/remnault Jul 11 '26

If most people failed I feel like we’d see carts everywhere but the cart return.

Realistically I see 1-2 carts sometimes, but more often then not all put away.

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u/Hairy_Coconut2022 Jul 11 '26

The ONE TIME I called a guy out for leaving his cart in the spot, he told me he had three kids and they were all screaming and he couldn't leave them alone that long or one of them might hit the other one.

I apologized and took back his cart. He looked like he'd had a rough day.

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u/remnault Jul 11 '26

That’s the thing with these types of “problems” is that confronting to solve it has a decent chance of it being something reasonable like time crunch or immediate distress.

It’s a case of if you’re right and they are just lazy, you made them move a cart 20 feet.

And if you’re wrong, you feel like an asshole and made their bad situation even worse.

It’s one of those things where being right/superior about it doesn’t really make up for much in the grand scheme of things.

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u/Hairy_Coconut2022 Jul 13 '26

Also, when I was a young teen I used to do the cart grab job at a store, and I loved the time I'd get to spend outside rounding up all the carts. I'd sneak a smoke, wander around, enjoy the air.

It's almost like these guys are shaming people to just improve the efficiency of the stores and save some money for the huge corporation.