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[-] the_itsb@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] EliasChao@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Big oof, that's most likely what happened. If someone goes alone there's not much they can do if they end up having to go after they already bought their drink and snacks. When I worked at a theatre some people would leave their snacks with me temporarily when I worked at the booth where we accepted tickets to let people in, so for anyone who likes to go to movies solo, that's usually a good option. That or you can find someone seated nearby in the theatre and ask them to let people know that the snacks you're leaving at your seat are claimed and not abandoned. Or bring a note to put with your snacks as a last ditch effort.

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.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is legit terrifying. No one deserves an unsolicited meating like this.

Edit: accidentally a word

[-] biggetit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Did you not take their cart back to where you found it??

[-] biggetit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

I’ve always had an irrational fear of someone taking my cart when I walk away for 5 seconds. Turns out maybe it’s not so irrational!

[-] biggetit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Especially if you shop where I do, lol.

[-] Lexam@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Learned this working a Black Friday once. Store didn't care who paid for the merchandise.

[-] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is how you can get a mom killed.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like a bad YouTube prank. Truly shitty though 👏

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I've actually been told this earnestly by more than one idiot 😂

[-] Bornyellow@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Life is much more than just law. Society, morals, friendship, love, kindness, fairness etc.

[-] hahattpro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Radio_717@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That a dood one. Had me rolling!

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You can actually just take their whole cart out without paying and the police will arrest them for stealing instead of you!

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