My mom told me this story when she called this morning:  When she and my dad were shopping at their local grocery store yesterday, someone took his cart.  That's not the best part...the guy who swiped my dad's cart went to the courtesy desk, handed the manager my dad's cold cuts and broccoli, and walked off!

My dad went up and down the aisles looking for his cart for about 15 minutes, THEN went to the courtesy desk.  The manager looked around the store, but the guy was nowhere to be found.  By that time, my mom assumed, the guy had already checked out and left!

My dad was furious, because he had taken up to 20 minutes to pick out decent produce.

So some guy who couldn't be bothered to do his OWN damn shopping took my dad's cart, got another couple of things, and left the store.

How's that for asshole of the week?!?

Sorry Lis, but that's kinda funny don't you think? At least he had his cold cuts and broccoli... And the person who took the stuff may have had his or her first decent meal in ages. Sounds like your dad has good taste!

I've not heard about anyone taking someone's cart and then checking out with it. Usually the purse or wallet. Apparently your dad knows how to pick his produce and lost the best of it. That sucks.

 Let's see, in order to get your dad's produce, the guy had to pay for it. Good taste? But he left the broccoli so he must have intestinal problems and, he's a vegan or very specific about his meats. Maybe he couldn't walk well and wasn't able to stand picking up his own produce. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and wish him well..

Never thought to look at it that way, and I have a lot of Libra...I just can't see anyone doing this unless they were crazy, lazy or both.  Guy kept what he liked and gave the rest to the manager, pretending he didn't want it any more...sorry.  That's not someone who was in need, that was an asshole.

Lis, if that happened to my Dad (may he rest in peace) I would have been pissed off, bigtime!

Just plain rude, and lazy - ugh.

that's freakin' bizzare...

It's an inconvenience you can really do without..it's a large enough pain going round the shops anyway at this time of year especially, apart from having to keep an eye on the stuff you've already bagged. My Dad would probably thought he had gone even more batty and would wonder about going back. I would not have wanted that for him.

It's a funny story, at any rate - and I love your headline!

I'm not intending to take the focus off your tale, but once I was on line at Walmart when a women jumped in front of me and began frantically waving her arms. 

The reason was a trail of turds going down the aisle. Someone said it fell out of some poor man's pant leg as he was doing a frenzied dance toward the men's room.

I love bizarre shopping incidents.

Oh my God Bananas!!  Holy Moly!  (I refrained from saying holy crap, lol)

lol Bananas!

I had a friend have her cart taken while at walmart. She was Aries. Was very loud and "rude" about it. As her libra friend I encouraged her. Good time for an Aries to get pissed. It was very frustrating to have to re-shop and rude of the person who took it.

Liz, that's why I felt bad for my dad.  He's working way past retirement age (his choice), he just turned 73 (a Scorpio, November 1), and he's been dealing with a lot of shit this past year.  Now of course, the asshat who took his stuff didn't know any of that, but geez.  I don't blame my dad for being pissed.  It took him 20 minutes to pick good produce and ANOTHER 20 minutes to re-pick it!  My mom said there was a point when she didn't know if they'd ever make it out of that store.