Can't believe what happened... was l in the right?

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Went to IKEA today... hardly any trolleys in the trolley bay .. but just manage to get last one.
I put my walking stick in the trolley.
Needed loo.. went to disabled loo..( l have a stoma). left my trolley outside with my walking stick in.. thinking surely no one will take my trolley.
Comes out of loo and trolley is gone.
Asks the security guy and a member of staff I'd they had seen it/ moved it.. they hadn't.
So l start walking... to look for it..
See a woman in the next section pushing my trolley .. with some items she had put in.
I explain she has my trolley with my walking stick in.
She looks at me like I'm mad but doesn't say a word. Takes out my walking stick and hands it to me.
I say.. " can you please take your items out of my trolley and let me have it back please".
She huffs and puffs.. but doesn't speak. Put her items into her friends trolley and pushes my trolley to me so hard it bangs into me.
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Box contents:

• 13 ÖSTANÖ chairs
• Two VANGSTA dining tables, to be placed end-to-end
• 13 of 365+ goblet, plate, knife, fork, spoon, bowl
• One 365+ carafe
• Many packets of meatballs
• Lingonberry sauce
• Daim cake

Considerable assembly required.

Wine, disciples, and messiah not included.

I've seen IKEAs with loos at the start as well as halfway around.

Doesn't excuse taking a trolley that clearly belongs to a mobility-impaired person who has nipped into the loo.

Tell me that you don't have IBS, interstitial cystitis, or any other medical problem that affects continence without telling me that you don't have any medical problems that effect continence...

Can you read? It had OP’s walking stick in it. That makes it her trolley. What sort of ignorant entitled selfish twat takes a trolley with a walking stick in it from outside a disabled toilet?

What are you on about? Of course it was being used, just not at that precise moment because OP was on the toilet.
If I walk into Tesco with a trolley is it okay for someone to come up and take it from me on the grounds that I hadn't yet put anything in?!

And nicking the walking stick. That's theft and impairs the OP's ability to walk.

Since being widowed, I often go to cafés on my own. If I have to leave my food, I also leave my glasses and/ or gloves as a sign that I'm still using the table. It's worked so far.

I see your IKEA JESÜS and raise you

IKEA KRÏSHNÄR

What kind of cunt walks away with somebodies walking aid.

If you would take a shopping trolley parked outside the toilets, that had personal property in it, especially a walking stick, you are a massive twat.

Not everyone can 'just go to the toilet' before starting their shopping. Not everyone can communicate to their bladder and bowels that it isn't a convenient time and to wait.

In a nice normal world we would be able to leave a shopping trolley outside the loo, with something inside it to signify it was being used, and not have Mr or Mrs Cunty Chops come along and take it just because they feel like it.

Either you or ChatGPT are on a fast track to Hell. I laughed, so I'm probably joining you.

Seriously though, who nicks a walking stick from outside a disabled toilet?

Think about this story again but the person at the centre of it is your mum, dad, nan, grandad... or anyone vulnerable that you love.

Would you be such a twat about them if they had their walking stick taken and a trolley rammed into them? Because they suddenly needed the loo and obviously couldn't force a shopping trolley into the cubicle with them.

And also bear in mind someone with a physical disability may not have the energy or ability to traipse around looking for a trolley and we're glad to have found one in the first place.

Thought not.

Okay, this made me laugh WAY too hard! 😆👏😆

She didn't steal it though, did she? OP asked for it back and the woman gave it back...unless I missed part of the post? And op got the last trolley, there must have been a few abandoned inside. I get it was annoying but no more than that...she gave it straight back..?

I now totally LOVE ChatGPT!

I am dying over here because y'all have me laughing so hard it's difficult to stop and breathe! 😆😆👃👀

Let us pray to IKEA Jesus and repent our cart thieving sins. 🙏🙏😇

She was embarrassed she’d been found having stolen a disabled person’s trolley. I think people react in funny ways when they feel embarrassment.

Walking sticks are easily not noticed, I know this because I've recently found two in trolleys in the trolley bay i.e. the owner had returned their trolley reclaimed their pound coin and not noticed their own walking stick left behind. (I checked no-one nearby had left them, then handed them in to customer services before anyone starts accusing me of being a walking stick thief)

It's entirely possible they saw an apparently empty and abandoned trolley. It's also possible they didn't take your trolley at all - rather staff returned an apparently abandoned trolley, from where it was probably in the way, to the trolley bay and the new customer then got it from there.

Obviously you were right to go and retrieve your walking stick. But it was really weird of you to reclaim 'your trolley'. You should just have realised you were being cheeky trying to reserve a trolley you weren't using and gone and got another one.

PERFECTLY put! 👏👏

The one I go to there are toilets right inside the entrance. Presumably if the OP had been using the toilets in the middle of the store she would have put it in the trolley park, not just left it where it could reasonably have been assumed abandoned.

(If there was a nearby trolley park which the OP didn't use is even more reasonable for the 'trolley thief' to have thought the trolley abandoned.)

Holy Mary Meatballs?

okay I promise I’m done

Actually, I have Crohn's Disease.

The thief's accomplice. What planet did you come from? If a cart is outside a restroom 99.9% of the time someone IN the restroom has a right to claim it. Don't let common sense be an uncommon virtue.

Lol made my night thanks 🤣🤣

This thread shows both the best of MN and the worst of MN, and demonstrates why society is fucked. Who would see a trolley outside the disabled toilet with a walking stick in it no less and think I’ll have that, and who in their right mind would defend them?

Then you should understand the problem.

When I was a middle manager in a Scottish high school, we made specific toilet provision for a pupil with Crohn's, because there was no guarantee that he'd be able to get through an exam or a lesson without needing urgent access to a lavatory.

I only have IBS, and that's bad enough when I have a flare up.