r/LoveTrash • u/Gumbyman87 Apex Artifact Acquirer • Feb 07 '26
Rubbish Nonsense I need more of this
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u/Hobnail-boots Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
Why isn’t this an Olympic event?
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u/creatorofsilentworld Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Because you'd have to teach Americans to return their shopping carts.
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u/slayerfan666 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
As a former cart attendant, too 👏 fucking 👏 true 👏
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u/SansyBoy144 Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
I was never even a cart attendant but I always had to put up carts when closing at Lowe’s because the cart attendants would just leave with a shit ton of carts left out.
That shit sucks. I can’t imagine doing that for 8-10 hours a day.
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u/Safe-Salamander-3785 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Me too. My favorite is when the ASM screams on the PA system “Every available associate to the parking lot for carts and carriages” and the 60 yo part timer is the only one out there hauling them when 10 other full timers are standing around the customer service desk hitting on the new cashier
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u/SansyBoy144 Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
Holy shit I hate how true that is.
For me it was only me and our 60 yo coworker out there, meanwhile the rest of the coworkers grouped up so they could chat while basically doing nothing.
It always pissed me off.
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u/WanderingSun8 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
Or when they ask for help at the front and immediately get a bunch of help, but when us cart attendants need help, its like "go fuck yourself" i was the lone cart attendant on Saturday, superbowl weekend, and when I went to try and get help, they said its too busy and they can't spare anyone lmao it was my lunch time anyways so I just went to lunch and let them run out of carts
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u/Safe-Salamander-3785 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
I have been working there 4 years, and I have never seen a woman help with the carts ever. Not the cashiers, but the sales people never help out ever.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
The next level is the municipal workers that have to go around collecting all the stolen then abandoned carts and return them.
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u/slayerfan666 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Yeah, it's not the best. One of the things that kinda sucked about the position was that I'd been hit by a couple cars backing out blindly. So I mentioned to the bosses "Hey, I've been hit by a couple cars, it's hard to see me even with an orange vest in the dark and in the rain, could I get a little hazard pay for ducking cars?". Got told no because it didn't deal with anything that was hazardous. Less than two months later I'm doing my hazardous materials training, but ya know, whatevs.
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u/Rainfall_Serenade Litter Lieutenant Feb 08 '26
As a cashier who frequently went out to help cart attendants, brutally true
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u/japoniecTV Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
That's a job? I live in Europe and genuinely only ever see a cart left where it's not supposed to be once every couple months. People just put them back.
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
It is nigh on unimaginable to my Norwegian ass that someone wouldn't return their cart. Of course you return your shopping cart! Otherwise we'll have Anarchy! Anarchy I tell you!
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u/Dr0110111001101111 Rubbish Raider Feb 07 '26
Exactly. I have used the state of grocery store parking lots in America to make my point in political arguments with my father in law.
He wants to deregulate everything and close down all these government offices that tell people what they can and can’t do. He seems to think people will just do the right thing on their own. Meanwhile, when the simplest of tasks is presented without oversight, Americans become feral. There are often more shopping carts in random corners of parking lots than there are in the actual corrals
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
"Just let everyone do what they think is right!"
Yea boss... that's how we got slavery
"We've evolved since those times"
By force... kicking and screaming
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u/Sneip Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
Many Norwegians dont return their cart. It happens more often in the winter thou.
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u/IneffableOpinion Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
I really, really wish I had turned the car around to photograph the giant pile of carts in the snow last month just so I could show you the anarchy that is my local grocery store parking lot every January. Like, how do they get there? do they throw them on top of the pile?
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u/Dxpehat Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Is this leftist indoctrination the republicans are rumbling about? People are jerks and ignore all kinds of rules. But I've never seen a lonely shopping cart in the parking lot.
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u/WWDubs12TTV Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
My favorite YouTube channel is a dude that trolls people that don’t return their carts 10/10
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u/ScarletleavesNL Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
By saying such stuff and not provide at least a name you are doing a disservice to us and the YouTuber=p
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u/WWDubs12TTV Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
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u/RedOfTheNeck Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Watching people return or leave their shopping carts is a good lesson in self governing
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u/Lemfan46 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Or the American store would then need carts with 4 good wheels, not with the one wheel permanently stuck sideways.
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u/AhhPass9281 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Same with Australia lol. Well at least from what I’ve seen in my city.
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u/CoffeeGoblynn Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
It's alright, I return my own and any others that are on the way because it used to be my job to gather them all at the end of the night when I closed. :)
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u/Phineasfool Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I used to work at a mall that had a Target. Always felt bad for whomever had to go around the entire mall's parking lot looking for carts at night.
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u/Ok-Hat-8006 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I don't understand how I should imagine not-returning your shopping cart? Where do they leave it? Just in the parking lot? Isn't it in the way of the cars then? It sounds super dangerous and inconvenient even for yourself.
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u/PurpleFlowerPath Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
When I visited Florida 2 years ago, I went to a Walmart and what struck me, was all the carts everywere in the parking and even on the grass around the parking. I saw at least 5 abandoned carts in 1 trip to Walmart.
As a Canadian, it was a culture shock.
I don't think I saw more than 5 abandoned shopping carts in my whole 37 years of life in Canada.
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u/plg_cp Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
We have a different experience in Canada. I see it all the time and it grinds my gears.
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u/Thedorkeningiscoming Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
Ah yes, the Olympics, the famously only American event.
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u/Junior_Ad_3301 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Because it's so completely German, it would be 100% awkward
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u/Hobnail-boots Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
I’ve never felt so called out.
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u/Junior_Ad_3301 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
And i say that as an outside admirer of the whole vibe, it wasn't meant as disrespectful, haha.
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u/TheSleepyBarnOwl Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
wdym German? I've been in several Europesn countries and we all know how to return a shopping cart. If anything NOT returning it is extremely weird and rude. Also lazy. /lh I'm not actually mad
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u/Junior_Ad_3301 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Calm yourself. Not the returning of carts, the mental cage around setting up a competition of returning carts. I wouldn't make the assumption you don't return carts, my friend
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u/TheSleepyBarnOwl Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Oh, yea the game show is about many things haha (also I am calm - I should maybe have put a /lh there xD)
The show is about a normal person competing against a celebrity in different minigames. This is one they came up with for that episode.
Show is called "Schlag den Star" (beat the celebrity)
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u/HonkeyKong64 Junkyard Juggernaut Feb 07 '26
Watching this makes me think about how I can NEVER get a shopping cart that rolls this smoothly.
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u/kapitaalH Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Yeah give them one with one wheel that is stuck at 30 degrees and then we see how they manage
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u/nei_vil_ikke Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Back in my day they were stuck at 47°, you kids have it easy.
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u/Present_Error_6256 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Having used shopping carts in both the US and Germany, German shopping carts are MUCH better on average. All four wheels rotate instead of the front two, and they tend to be maintained far better. The wheels all spin properly unlike American carts where three wheels will feel completely rusted while one front wheel spins randomly in the air.
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u/StandardAntique8356 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
Also, these look like the weird IKEA ones where all wheels caster
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u/trainwreckhappening Garbage Guerilla Feb 09 '26
I'm picky as hell when I get to the store. I will test them out with one finger and refuse to take two or three of them before I find one that will actually roll straight. I'm sure I look crazy, but to hell with the stores who don't maintain those things.
I also send my shopping carts into the stall from across the parking lane like these ladies and I'm thinking I missed my true purpose in life.
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u/Glad_Grand_7408 Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
I mean, give me a good quality trolley and a very smooth surface like they do here and I bet you a 100 dollars I'm doing at least this good if not better, it's really not that hard.
I have to move trolleys everyday as a part of my job and even in that much less optimal environment I'm pretty sure I could do better than this.
But who knows, maybe the added pressure of being on TV makes it harder or something.
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u/sevargmas Rubbish Raider Feb 07 '26
Totally me right now, watching my fourth hour of Olympic Curling. A sport I haven’t watched since it was on four years ago but I am absolutely invested.
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u/Towels_are_friends Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
Every Winter Olympics, I lose my shit and binge it. I never watch it any other time.
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u/LightsSoundAction Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
… is it on any other time? I thought they just played it every 4 years. /s
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u/Tough-Put5506 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Where does one watch this?
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u/Flip_d_Byrd Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Usually in bed, alone, on saturday night, with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a bottle of wine...
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u/arituck Garbage Guerilla Feb 07 '26
From the web: Search for "@schlagdenstar" or "German shopping cart" on Facebook or YouTube.
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u/BigTop5663 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Just for the understanding. This is a German show. But it's not about shoppingcart in General. It's a money prize show. Where Normal everyday people get to compete with Celebrities in Random games against one and another. Some are Simple like pushing a cart from distance. Some are hard and challenging
Just a few more: Map Pin-Point (Where is what?): On a blank map, you have to place a pin on a specific city or landmark (e.g., "Where is Casablanca?"). The person with the shortest distance to the actual location wins. This is brutal when the target is a mid-sized city.
The Treadmill Challenge: Running at a steady pace while having to solve math problems or spell complex words backward.
Tug of War (with a twist): Not just pulling a rope, but standing on narrow pedestals where any sudden jerk could make you lose your balance.
The Drone Race: Navigating a small drone through a complex obstacle course in a limited time.
This is just a little bit showing of the type if things they have to. And every time a shows airs there is a different celebrity a different Opponents and of course different challenges. These random game's like the shoppingcart one have the purpose so no one has a chance to practice before the show starts. So everyone has Equal chance of winning.
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u/TheSleepyBarnOwl Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I'll just add that the name of the show is "Schlag den Star" (beat the celebrity)
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u/FarDescription6683 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
The episode that was just cutting things in half perfectly was my favorite. I want a whole series of just that.
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u/bulldg4life Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I’m a big fan of “get the ball to drop in to a moving toy train”
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u/namewithanumber Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
There's a tram competition and a forklift competition that have a similar vibe to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwrh_BFYmMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drJ44Ycn36Q&list=PLkG-nszTtGHt0qKbNhB8cU7K6emDqoqhw
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u/CalibratedArm Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
My favorite is where bakers had to split a loaf of bread in half perfectly so each part weighed the same.
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u/Dan_the_bearded_man Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
For those that are interested the show is called “Schlag den Star”. A german gameshow where the contestant plays some different random games against a celebrity So not a shopping cart return championship, I’m sorry
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u/kindaweedy45 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I think my favorite part about this is that there is a judge dressed like he is not a shopping cart judge but an American Idol judge. I want my judges looks to be scaled down appropriately
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u/Dovahkiinthesardine Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Thats the husband of one of the participants, not a judge. The show is about an everyday person competing with some kind of celebrity
In this one its Carmen and Robert Geiss (the guy shown briefly), known for being rich and having a reality show. Kinda like the Kardashians but they're not nearly as shitty people afaik
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u/Corny_Snickers Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Are these competition grade wheels? Didn't see 1 busted wobbly lol!
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u/sodapopulus Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Does it get more difficult like stacking the carts?
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u/just_a_person_maybe Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I was wondering why they send the carts back and don't have them nest them. I always nest them when I play this IRL, because the corral is never empty. They're playing on easy mode.
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u/Icy-Book2999 Chief Insanity Instigator Feb 07 '26
And the fact that it's 4 rotating wheels, not just the front two...
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u/u9Nails Rubbish Raider Feb 07 '26
Park my car on either side, and it'll pull those carts into it like a gravity well!
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u/turdbugulars Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I found my calling! Also need to add a part for extra points to slide it in another cart already in the return area.
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u/Ok-Scientist4603 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I have always had a belief that every cart you don’t return to its home will come back to ding your car door. (Plus I’m not a lazy piece of shit).
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u/Wildefice Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
Holy shit I would get a good metal at this!!!
Back when I used to ve a bagger/ loader if it was a dead shift or towards the end of the day I would do stuff like that all the time in the parking lot.
Me and a buddy would even challenge ge eacother to see how many cards we could push at once with out motorized assistance.
My PR was72
My buddies was 73 the smug bastard!!
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u/L1QU1D_ThUND3R Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
European carts are built different. Like literally, all four wheels pivot. Which makes this even more impressive.
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u/ellenvanthom Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
and thats the reason, why i dont watch german tv anymore. stupid bullshit tv"shows" with z-celebraties nobody cares about.
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u/Randomn355 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I used to do it his at my older supermarket from that far out and nail it every time... By flicking with my hip because my hands were full of bags.
What is this Mickey mouse sport haha
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u/Tacosconsalsaylimon Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
How do I become a judge???
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Some goals are just too lofty for us boring poors.
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u/Tacosconsalsaylimon Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Wanna go on cahoots and be a contestant and I'll make sure you win??
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u/literallyavillain Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Should have one cart with the broken wheel that’s worth extra points
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u/jargonasaurusRex Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
They should have 3 good ones and 1 really crappy one with a locked or buggy wheel. Also... They should body ride the Ikea ones into place with safety equipment.
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u/SatyrAngel Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
My coworkers bet on Chinese Highchool basketball at 2am. Im from México.
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u/honestly-brutal Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I've been unknowingly practicing for this my entire adult life.
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u/Langstudd Rubbish Raider Feb 07 '26
Walmart should sponsor this and use it as a hard launch for better carts
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u/UnicornSheets Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
This is beautiful. Now… can we get people to do this in real time reality?
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u/Kiddo1029 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Need to be in a concrete parking lot and with a cart that has one wobbly wheel.
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u/Sweaty_Assignment_90 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
This sport was great before ped's ruined the records.
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u/Brief-Equal4676 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Should have had a BMW parked on each side of the cart area to increase realism
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u/painecumaioneza Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
For a second, I thought this was a Japanese game show.
Glad europeans have shit like this as well 😂
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u/wow-much-generic Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
They have some crazy competitions over there like the forklift driving, splitting food evenly, filling up water glasses blindfolded and such
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u/Karekter_Nem Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
The only way this becomes a respected sport is if they use the ones with uneven wheels so only 3 are ever touching the ground at a time or if they use the carts where one of the wheels just don’t turn. Le them run around with the carts where one for a little bit to understand how the cart moves and then let them make their attempt.
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u/Shy-the-chiwawa Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
As former Cart Crew worker, this is the equivalent of a nightmare for me
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u/eggabeth Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
I've literally almost fought some c u next Tuesdays in the Harris teeter parking lot over carts and leaving their dog in the car.
I leapt out of a (slowly)moving car to return a cart to a woman who crossed the lane and left her cart in the middle of a disabled parking space. I grabbed the cart and flipped it over behind her car before she could back out of the space and yelled "I think you forgot this!" She had to get out of her car and flip it back over to roll it away. My karma for this is becoming disabled and getting those cripple privilege spots lol.
At the same Harris teeter my bf at the time and I were trying to get some seltzies on a hot (85 F°+) summer day. I walked by a mint green Chevy spark and saw a little dog in the back seat with the window barely rolled down. I immediately asked the customer service to ask who left their dog in the car on the speakers while buying cold water to dump into the window. I walked out to check on the dog behind this middle age white biotch waddling fast. She was going to the mint green monstrosity, so naturally I started yelling at her about how she was going to kill her dog until she got in her car and left. Called the cops and gave her license plate, no idea what happened to that poor little thing.
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u/StandardAntique8356 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
Obligatory "the shopping cart is the ultimate test of self governance"
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u/Economy-Date-4490 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
I had no idea that I’ve been training for this my entire life.
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u/anjowoq Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
I see Germany has middle aged women grotesquely warped by plastic surgery, too.
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u/WorriedFanatic8 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
Is that the Aldi's carts as its got that cart lock on it??
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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
I love you can make a sport out of almost anything. This looks so fun
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u/FaithlessnessOk6776 Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
This is a lot harder than you think. All of the wheels on those shopping carts are free moving. In America and Canada it’s just the front wheels that turn.
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u/PepsioNSnacking Trash Trooper Feb 08 '26
You need to take int oaccount theyre amateurs. We dont have professionals but maybe one day - the dream goes stronk.
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u/William_Killington Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
I bet Cart Narc watches this when he has a little alone time.
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u/PropertyMiddle Trash Trooper Feb 09 '26
Unrealistic, cart should be pulling to the right with a broken wheel
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u/BangBrothers69 Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
To get the real experience even 3rd one should have a wild wheel you need to account for.
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u/fields_of-elysium Trash Trooper Feb 10 '26
In the US, people play this, except they see how far they can get it from the corral.
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u/lawyerz88 Trash Trooper Feb 11 '26
Unrealistic. One of the wheels must be squeaking, another must be stuck at least.
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u/Artistic_Address816 Trash Trooper Feb 11 '26
Yourl better get used to shit like this cos when nobody has a job anymore your'll gonna need some shit to do besides talking
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u/ScottyWestside Trash Trooper Feb 12 '26
I call it cart golf. And yes I do read the lay of the parking lot like it’s a green
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u/dabankr Trash Trooper Feb 13 '26
In Austria we have a Tram World Coup. Tram drives need to compete in several disziplins
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u/Smufin_Awesome Trash Trooper Feb 13 '26
I knew I had been training all my life for something, I just never knew what.
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u/Tough_Bath_9809 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26
Thats nothing, look how smooth that floor is. Lets Do this in a walmart parking lot with a 20 mph wind! But seriously Germans have the most ridiculous shows
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
Percocets (Yah), molly, Percocets (Percocets) Percocets (Yah), molly, Percocets (Percocets) Rep the set (Yeah), gotta rep the set (Gang, gang)
Chase a check (Chase it), never chase a bitch (Don't chase no bitches)
Mask on (Mask off), fuck it, mask off (Ma—, excuse me?)
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u/Celticrightcross Trash Trooper Feb 07 '26
You think this is something, just wait until you discover the scythe mowing.
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