To mess with abandoned trollies?

[Dannii689]

I cannot stand abandoned shopping trollies in supermarkets...as a wheelchair user I find it difficult enough to navigate the aisles when it's busy etc, without people's carts lying in the way. I tend to react passive aggressively to this, and either hide their trollies or add lots of items to them. It is a way of venting to me. If I get pulled up by said trolley abandoner, I usually remind them that trollies have wheels and can go where they go too.

I don't mean.when it happens I mean approach the manager and ask for all trolleys to be fitted with a sticker saying wheelchair users find it hard when trolleys are abandoned I their path please place them consideratly

Yabu.

I work in a supermarket and whilst I don't mind putting bits away that have been left at the checkout for whatever reason, please don't put chilled or frozen products in other people's trolleys. There's a good chance when the customer notices they'll just dump them on a shelf somewhere and unless it's noticed immediately by a member of staff when it's still very cold/frozen, it will need to be wasted as we can't be sure how long it's been sitting out for. Our staff bonus depends on store performance so the more waste there is the less bonus we get.

To the poster who cleared the shelf of pot noodles to dump in someone's trolley, you aren't funny. That will be a missed sale when another customer who wanted to purchase those pot noodles finds there isn't any available. Again, that hits our bonus. Thanks.

I may have been guilty of the abandoned trolley, but maybe we have met IRL, are you responsible for the ginger wine in my trolley one christmas, I bought it figuring I needed it for a recipe and had put it in myself...

Bishop, don't be a knob.

Daisy, feel free to speak for me. I completely agree.

YABU.

I abandon my trolley, if I didn’t it’d be rammed up someone’s arse!

It’s easier to manoeuvre without it, and mine are parked out of the way. By this I mean ‘I used to work in a supermarket, and know where to park it without it causing a nuisance’.

I added an entire shelf of instant noodles to one today. Was particularly annoyed at that one as it was left bloody sideways!

What a shitty way to treat the staff, who would have had to re-stock/tidy the shelf up after you.

I agree worra

Shorty way to deal with people who may leave the trolley for s minute or two....maybe they had to run after an escaped toddler or something.....or maybe they have a disability themselves and rushed to the loo or something

Vile behaviour.....people have to buy the half defrosted stuff/put it all back in correct place or write it off if left out of chiller too long

Guessing @Dannii689 isn’t going to be back now the tide has turned against her. Predictable.

How very sad you are You have my sympathies.

My ds is disabled but is mobile. He can take off and we have to chase him to stop him hurting himself or disappearing. That usally means i need to let the trolley go and run the opposite way. I would be angry to come back to find someone had done what you do.

My daughter also has a disability i will teach both kids as they grow how to be patient than passive aggressive to people.

My sister leaves her meter for her diabetic pump in her trolley. If she can't find it then needs it what would you do. I would find it cute for you to go down for manslaughter is all I'm saying

Call trolleyline asap.

I also have disabled children and a condition myself that sometimes makes it painful to push the trolley. sometimes I have to leave the trolley to chase my disabled child as he is suddenly upset by sensory isses and has a meltdown. sometimes I have to leave the trolly parked as out of the way as possible and carry a few bits back to it as pushing it hurts more.

I confess that I often leave my trolley. One time though there was another abandoned trolley near it and I mistakenly picked the wrong trolley and started to walk off with it adding stuff in. The other trolley owner came back and it was a bit chaotic for a while but we realised what happened and sorted it in the end. Luckily he saw the funny side and I think it made us both realise the hazards of abandoning your trolley! I try to be more careful now.

You've got way to much time on your hands, op. Grow up.

I wasn't speaking for every person in a w/c, but you come across a bit like OP, a total ray of sun shine.

Life is hard enough, then add in a disability or life's other little treasures and you have the perfect recipe to be grumpy. It's just in my world of pretend unicorns and rainbows, if I was a disabled/chronically ill person who chose to dwell on every little thing I fear my head would explode.

This is exactly why I couldn't get on with the concept of the spoonie community. I don't want to spend my life going oh I feel sick, oh that hurts, yay now I've got reflux, this pain feels like something is going to rupture, my left side is numb, the latter rather amusing as I didn't realise till I tried to stand up and did a groovy little dance to stop me falling yet again. I'm to blame for tummy posts as it's my one pet hate having gastric/bowel issues, now every day some people are going look at my swollen belly. I could shoot myself at times, if I knew I was going to inspire something so annoying.

I want something the opposite of the spoonie culture, where the focus is on positives. On groups you have anyone do anything without an addendum of 'obviously with the help from my carer/family member' when realistically I think they did it alone, but the ready to bake mix would take away from their illness if they admitted to doing something alone.

Like for me a bit grim fair enough, but getting my hair washed and clothes changed would be a big deal. A bit like normal people posts I had a greeeeeat relaxing bath.

Life is going to be so grim if you're simmering inside most of the time.

I hasten to add again, although someone has used this as an example, imagine if 90 year old Mr Smith comes back to his trolley and its full of packs of rice. He's going to be so upset that some eejit would do this, in his mind for no apparent reason. It's easier for only just mobile Mr Smith to walk and grab the cat biscuits he forget than lugging round his trolley so he left it there, wrongly thinking what is the worst that could happen.

We want to be treated with respect, but if you treat people like this, why should we get one ounce of respect.

To the poorly Mums with kids with health issues too I would give you wine but it's only 9am

I used to abandon my trolley when I had ds in an sn buggy in one hand and a trolley in the other and dragging the trolley up and down every aisle was difficult.

I'm genuinely glad it's all rainbows for you. That's not sarcasm.
Whilst I wouldn't do what the OP has done I do move trollers out of the way when I need to access shelves. I don't have time to sit there and wait or interfere with the content of other people's trollies.

Yet I am endlessly irked by the thoughtless things non wheelchair using people do that make life more difficult - gluing credit card machines to their mounts, designing store layouts so I can't get down most aisles, putting all the cleaning products in the loo.... so despite being autistic I can sympathise with the OP.

putting all the cleaning products in the loo

Eh??

Yes, filling the disabled loo with mops, buckets, floor buffers etc so you can't get a chair in.