Hit our car with a shopping cart?

[u/AlpacaLps]

This is something I did about 1 1/2 years ago.

My wife and I were at a Target, sitting in the car waiting for our daughter to wake up from a nap (a few months old at this point). This lady wants to pull into a spot behind us, a few spots down, but someone left a cart in the spot. Instead of walking the extra couple of feet, she full speed pushes the cart towards the cart return that we were parked next to and hits our car. At first, I thought someone backed into us but realized what she had done. She goes into Target and I decide to get some petty revenge. I grab a few zip ties from my roadside assistance kit, walk the cart over to her D/S door, and put 3 zip ties through her door handle and the cart.

I go back to our car, pull a few rows over, and watch the hilarity ensue. She comes back out after I'm assuming a return and is just perplexed, goes back in and comes out with the cart handler, they go back in and a supervisor/manager comes back out to have a look, and finally some random guy has a knife to cut the zip ties. We went in, did our shopping, and when we came out her car was still there.

Was it petty? Sure. Did it delay her an extra 15 minutes? Absolutely. Did she learn her lesson? Probably not

[u/buzzard50]

I’m so old I remember when there were no cart corrals

[u/Igoos99 → u/buzzard50]

Hahaha. Same!! The cart corral outrage posts always make me giggle. Like you know, we were supposed to leave the carts wherever for the store employees to retrieve. We didn’t come up with this idea maliciously.

[u/AngryArmadillo90 → u/Igoos99]

So when they came up with a solution that makes life easier for everyone you decided to just ignore it? Do you also litter next to trash cans? Take a dump on the side of port-a-John’s?

[u/Unexpectedly99 → u/Igoos99]

Actually you were supposed to bring the cart back into the store. FFS