AIBU to think stealing a trolley to wheel your child home is not on?

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Just passed a couple, dad pushing baby in buggy, mum pushing toddler in a Sainsbury's trolley.

One bag of shopping that the dad is holding in his hand so it's not like the trolley is full of shopping and borrowing the trolley was the only way to get it home.

I think it's bugging me as they are relatively far away from shop and I doubt they'll return it. There is a spate of abandoned trollies by me (only sainsbury's ones, no £1 for trolley) and they are really bugging me but I maybe irrationally so?

Would you steal a trolley to transport your child home?

why would that be ok in your mind holly?

If your child hurt himself at the supermarket; would your solution to his sudden inability to walk really be to push him home in a trolly?

I have left a deposit and my driving license to borrow a trolley before.
Now admittedly mine was due to overshopping with no way of getting it home otherwise but you are guessing/surmising that they are going to abandon the trolley when that might not be the case.

The wheel stop things do work. Me and my mam did a huge shop at tesco once so decided to get a taxi home. My mam went over to talk to a taxi driver, and then waved me over with the trolley. I started to approach the taxi and the wheels stopped! Cue some daggers from my mam because she thought i was being a V awkward teenager and didn't want to push the trolley. Humph.

But annnnyway, OP, that is ridiculous!

O lighten up, the trolley ride for the kid is clearly for FUN. Remember that, anyone?

And you've no proof this isn't a family who a) checked it was ok first and b) intend to return it later.

O lighten up, the trolley ride for the kid is clearly for FUN. Remember that, anyone?And you've no proof this isn't a family who a) checked it was ok first and b) intend to return it later.

one, taking things that do not belong to you may be fun, but it's also called stealing.

and two, I'd be surprised if Tescos were like yeah "it's fun so go ahead and steal it"

and three even if you intend to return it at some point, it is still stealing. If everyone did it there would be no trolleys when you needed one. You don't get the option of borrowing it.

hahahaha so funny -if everyone took a trolley.As if.

It's a trolley. Who cares?

The supermarket chrome?

tgis thread made me think about an elderly lady I knew when my local supermarket got trolleys yiu pay a pound for.

well, she paid her pound for her trolley and did her shopping. then she took her shopping home in the trolley. it turned out that she thought she had bought the trolley! didn't realise she would get her pound back.

And you've no proof this isn't a family who a) checked it was ok first and b) intend to return it later

Yeah, course that's what happened LittleMissLucy. I mean, obviously I don't have proof an' all, but I'm willing to bet that that's the bollocks that it sounds.

suspecting little miss Lucy is actually 12

Of course YANBU -
trolleys are purely for wheeling drunken studant partners home..........

NOT that I ever did this

Big Lump would have done my back in.

I'm mid 40s but I do have the spirit of a naughty 12 yr old sometimes. Apols.

we used to do this at university. sainsbury's was the nearest supermarket and it was about a thirty minute walk from our accomodation. bus was £3, taxi closer to £7. the shop let us take them because we always brought them back on the next trip, or another flat of students did.

My dad was a manager of a small factory that made shopping trolleys, people nicking them kept the factory in business

But on a serious note maybe the child had hurt itself and they couldn't afford a taxi, maybe they were going to take it back.