October 8, 2025 at 7:35 am

Customer Was Too Lazy To Walk Ten Feet To The Shopping Cart Return, So He Ended Up Crashing His Car Into His Own Misplaced Cart

by Benjamin Cottrell

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It’s funny how something as small as a shopping cart can reveal someone’s true colors.

One rude customer parked just feet from the cart corral, yet still shoved his cart where it didn’t belong.

Little did he know karma was waiting a few inches away.

You’ll want to read on for this one!

Instant Karma in the parking lot

So there’s this thing about how it shows what a person is like by where they leave their shopping cart.

Customers at this particular store seem to fail this test all the time.

In our lot, you are never more than 60 ft from a corral, yet people still leave their carts everywhere.

But one employee recounts one of the most egregious examples.

I was gathering carts and watched this guy who was parked less than 10 ft from the corral put his cart against the flower bed.

For reference, the flower bed is about 3/4 the size of a parking spot, and it went car, flowers, then corral.

I immediately think this guy is just a jerk and I continue about my business.

Then came the best part.

Then I hear a giant crash. I look over and this guy had hit the cart he had just put there.

All he had to do was walk a few feet. He still didn’t put it in the corral.

This guy had it comin’ big time!

What did Reddit think?

Some people can’t be bothered to do the right thing, no matter how easy it is.

Screenshot 2025 09 12 at 1.47.36 PM Customer Was Too Lazy To Walk Ten Feet To The Shopping Cart Return, So He Ended Up Crashing His Car Into His Own Misplaced Cart

Many people have dreamed of this exact moment.

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This type of carelessness makes this ex-retail worker extra mad.

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Europe appears to be ahead of the game in preventing behavior like this.

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If this dude had only taken .5 seconds to put his cart away like a courteous person, he wouldn’t have been in this mess!

This story proves the universe definitely has a sense of humor.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.

Benjamin Cottrell | Assistant Editor, Internet Culture

Benjamin Cottrell is an Assistant Editor and contributing writer at TwistedSifter, specializing in internet culture, viral social dynamics, and the moral complexities of online communities. He brings a highly analytical, editorial voice to his reporting on workplace conflicts, malicious compliance, and interpersonal drama, with a specific focus on nuanced stories that lack an obvious villain.

As a published author of rhetorical criticism, Benjamin leverages his academic background in human communication to dissect and elevate viral social media threads. Instead of simply summarizing events, he provides readers with balanced, deep-dive commentary into why the internet reacts the way it does. In addition to his cultural reporting, he is an experienced fine art photography essayist and video game reviewer.

When he isn’t analyzing the latest viral debates, Benjamin is usually chipping away at his extensive video game backlog, hunting down the best new restaurants, or out exploring the city with a camera in hand.

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