Handicapped or entitled? Not returning shopping cart

[GON]

Sitting in a parking spot at TJ Maxx is Castle Rock, CO.

Just watching the parking lot as wife is inside the store shopping. A person just walked a cart with goods to their vehicle, in a handicap parking spot. Person unloaded the cart, left at next to the handicap parking spot, and drive off. Seconds later the cart entered the handicap spot.

I moved the cart from the handicap spot to the store entrance. If someone truly needs that spot, they can park.

So the question us- was the person with the cart handicap, or entitled?

 

[JohnnyG]

From my personal experience, most people that I know with a handicap sticker, only have it because they are very lazy and feel that the system owes them everything for free.
A recent small study down here found that most handicap stickers were being faked.
But they get the closest parking spots!

Keep in mind my sample rate is very small.

 

[Hall]

Someone didn't return their cart to the cart corral. Not sure what relevance the handicap part has here....

Good job photo-documenting everything though !

 

[The_Jeff]

From my personal experience, most people that I know with a handicap sticker, only have it because they are very lazy and feel that the system owes them everything for free.
A recent small study down here found that most handicap stickers were being faked.
But they get the closest parking spots!

Keep in mind my sample rate is very small.

My grandpa resisted getting a placard for a very long time, but once he had it, he thought it was the bee's knees.

There was an assisted living facility near my old apartment that made the entire front row of the parking lot handicapped. Now I know medical facilities need "more" but this struck me as pandering.

All that said, I somehow remember 40 years or so ago that supermarkets used to hype that you could leave the carts in the parking lot, and the "cart boy" would perform some customer service and bring them back for you. This was before the "corrals" appeared. I suspect they eliminated the "cart boy" positions and pocketed the money.

They've successfully bamboozled the public that Curious George never had a tail, and that "we" are now "rude" for not DIYing something that was done by them in the not-distant past.

That all said, blocking a handicapped space is rude, though I'm less sure about a "normal" space.

 

[Allaned]

My wife, with signicicant knee osteoarthrits has a handicapped parking permit. To get one in South Carolina the doctor has to write the prescription and that is presented in person to the. DMV

I am also a rheumatologist and I wrote a number of those prescriptions over the years for my arthritis patients. I suggested that walking was better for exercise, but most were just not able.

My wife should have knee replacement but just hasn't made up her mind. She certainly qualifies. (I did not write her prescription, a colleague who is her rheumatologist, did).

We have local Pubix super markets and the Publix definitely have employess who gather the carts left outside. But there are corrals to place the cart in outside the stores. The bagger will offer to roll the full cart out to you car (I always decline but I found out from one that walking outside for a short break is better than continous bagging so they want to do it}

One thing to remember: you never know what the person you are looking at may be struggling with.

 

[MrBubba]

Here is what I think, handicap spot = people with disability you have to meet certain medical criteria to get it so these people are not faking it plain and simple if they have a handicap placard.

These stores should provide a cart corral within the handicap areas.

 

[The_Jeff]

Here is what I think, handicap spot = people with disability you have to meet certain medical criteria to get it so these people are not faking it plain and simple if they have a handicap placard.

These stores should provide a cart corral within the handicap areas.

One should always remember that an able bodied person might drive "grandpa's car" to a handicapped parking spot to pick them up from inside the building.

If you're not a doctor, if you're not that person's doctor, don't judge someone for "not looking handicapped enough."

 

[walterjay]

I have a long time friend with a serious handicap as a result of several medical conditions. She said that sometimes after shopping she can hardly make it out of the store and to her car. So it is possible that the person hurt so badly that the cart was just left due to that individuals ability to go any farther. We just don't know the particular situation that Gon observed.

 

[ATex7239]

My grandpa resisted getting a placard for a very long time, but once he had it, he thought it was the bee's knees.

There was an assisted living facility near my old apartment that made the entire front row of the parking lot handicapped. Now I know medical facilities need "more" but this struck me as pandering.

All that said, I somehow remember 40 years or so ago that supermarkets used to hype that you could leave the carts in the parking lot, and the "cart boy" would perform some customer service and bring them back for you. This was before the "corrals" appeared. I suspect they eliminated the "cart boy" positions and pocketed the money.

They've successfully bamboozled the public that Curious George never had a tail, and that "we" are now "rude" for not DIYing something that was done by them in the not-distant past.

That all said, blocking a handicapped space is rude, though I'm less sure about a "normal" space.

It’s still rude. Cleaning up after yourself is a social courtesy. There used to be full service gas stations too. Should we all just drop the gas nozzle on the ground when done for the next guy to pick up cause gramps got full service and we didn’t?

 

[ATex7239]

People who do not return shopping carts exemplify why society must have laws. Some people will not do the right thing unless compelled to do so. A few won’t do it at all.

 

[Passport1]

I go to WalMart several times a week. Always park far away from the store and grab a cart from the closest cart corral. When finished shopping I push it back to that distant corral.

Seems like good training for when I need to use a walker.

ebay

 

[CKN]

My wife has a handicap placard due to a chromic condition. People who leave carts adjacent to those parking spaces are more lazy than handicap-in my observation.

In addition-I attend Senior classes at our Rec Center. It is also my observation that these days Doctors approve the permits for those placards like handing out candy at Halloween. I want to stress-this is my observation based on directly interacting with those who have placards for their vehicles. The Rec Center is VERY BUSY on Monday Mornings. The handicap spaces fill up-then parking is in the "lower 40". Those with placards who can't get a space have no issue walking from the far reaches of the parking lot to the facility. NONE.

 

[walterjay]

BTW in my opinion there should be more required handicap parking spaces available. At my WalMart there are probably about maybe 15 handicap places. Out of hundreds of cars there I see people with handicap tags and stickers having to park far from the entrance. The other day I saw a poor hunched up person having to shuffle a long way due to handicap space being not available.

People aint gettin any younger.

 

[Allaned]

My wife has a handicap placard due to a chromic condition. People who leave carts adjacent to those parking spaces are more lazy than handicap-in my observation.

In addition-I attend Senior classes at our Rec Center. It is also my observation that these days Doctors approve the permits for those placards like handing out candy at Halloween. I want to stress-this is my observation based on directly interacting with those who have placards for their vehicles. The Rec Center is VERY BUSY on Monday Mornings. The handicap spaces fill up-then parking is in the "lower 40". Those with placards who can't get a space have no issue walking from the far reaches of the parking lot to the facility. NONE.

Please read my post above, #5 in the thread

 

[Huskyguy68]

99% of the time i think it is just selfish Laziness .
But as WalterJay mentioned, i can have some sympathy for the truly in pain person. It could a combination of too much pain, depression and just giving up on one self.
Some people you can see it where they dont bother to brush their teeth, or bathe reguraly , groom themselves, gave up on themselves and on social niceties, manners, etc.
A F**k you , them , that , this , im tired of this life Mentality.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, im 58 and in pretty good health. I always return the cart , sometimes i offer my cart to another shopper in the parking lot who looks like they are obviously needing a cart.

A few times when it was 25 cents return, i just gave it away , not asking for the quarter. Then it went to a dollar (Canada, we jave the dollar Loonie coin) and i suddendly became a tightwad.
Also many times helped strangers get a stuck cart unstuck from the other carts.
Yup, im a doogooder dork !

 

[Huskyguy68]

I have a handicap placard, but not for me.
For my 90 year old mama.
She has had some back pain issues, balance, her walking has slowed down so i hold her by the arm.
I right away go get her a shopping cart, it helps her to balance as she pushes the cart in the store, to stop and rest for a moment.

Very often i will ask her how she feels today, and if good, and i see a free Handicap spot next to a bunch of empty non Handicap spots, i will say " How about we walk a little bit, we can give the handicap spot to somebody who Really needs it much more then us?". She happily agrees.
Then there is my other two much older brothers.
Selfish, never help her in the car or to exit. They will walk at their own faster pace. Selfish and immature like the dad. The *****ead apple didnt fall far from the tree.

 

[dogememe]

cart narcs on youtube shows what type of people don't put their cart back. mostly entitled jerks!

 

[gman2304]

One thing to remember: you never know what the person you are looking at may be struggling with.

^ This

 

[ATex7239]

cart narcs on youtube shows what type of people don't put their cart back. mostly entitled jerks!

Just looked up Car Narc… welp now my Saturday is ruined.

 

[D60]

I don't have a problem returning them to a corral, but I do get annoyed when stores don't recover carts and corrals are overflowing and no carts in the store.

My main complaint with this is Home Depot with the larger material handling carts. Sometimes it's a 15 minute affair just to find one, and that's simply poor customer service IMO. You want to make it easy for customers to buy things from you when you're a retail establishment.