STOP! STOP PRETENDING THIS MATTERS.! The retail worker doesn't care! It makes no difference if the carts are in the corral or anywhere else in the lot. It effects NOTHING!! STOP!!

Narrator: They aren't.

That time Cart Narcs got a gun pulled on them in Texas:

https://youtu.be/h8d_XYd1dac

Assholes have guns and that's all they need to think they're right.

I‘m German. It’s in my DNA.

This is why I always try and find a parking spot closest to a cart corral. People go crazy trying to get a spot closest to the front of the store, but ultimately your last stop before getting in your car should be at the cart corral. Yes, sometimes this means parking further away from the front door, but I have functioning legs and walking an extra 30 feet isn't a problem.

I don't take the cart out of the store anymore. I really can't afford that many groceries.

One time I didn’t return the cart at Aldi.

I still think about that a decade later.

Because that haunts me I always put the cart back no matter what

For those that don’t know you have to put a quarter in to use a cart and you get it back when you put it away which means there are never stray carts anywhere. People want their money back.

An unironic way to fix half of America would be to let minimum wage workers hurt the public. Give them all baseball bats and make it legal to go for the knees of people who don't return carts, only one tap for people who don't put it back properly.

I bring it back to the store, like a proper child of the light.

EDIT - ProTip: Leave your reusable bags in your car. When you checkout tell them you don't need bags and to just put the groceries back in the cart. You can bag the stuff at your own pace once you are back at your vehicle. No self bagging stress, no "I forgot the bags stress, no extra work for the cashier, no need for a bagger, and you help the queue move faster.

It's a wonderful test for if someone is an ass.