> And one woman, upon being confronted about leaving her cart, declared, “I have really bad vertigo,” before getting behind the wheel and driving away. To be clear: Disabilities deserve accommodation. But if you could push the full cart to your car, why couldn’t you return the empty one?
FWIW, the cart itself can serve as a mobility aid for some types of disabilities. So the hard part might be walking back alone from returning the cart, and that person might view abandoned carts next to open parking spots as a good thing for where they themselves want to park to minimize the cartless walking. I'm certainly not trying to justify the overall trend, just talking about this one particular example.
Do you make those arguments in good faith?
If someone has vertigo that does not allow them to push a cart for few meters, then maybe this same vertigo means they shouldnt drive a car at all.
Because they can cause an accident and kill themselves, or others.
idk about vertigo specifically (and things laypeople diagnose as vertigo), but yes in that I had a family member who was exactly in this situation. Walking sticks and still very concerned with falling while getting to a cart, then perfectly stable after being able to grab onto something in front of them. Though I highly doubt they themselves left carts around the lot rather than returning them to the closest corral.
How did she get into the supermarket in the first place?
Driving? Plenty of people have personal mobility issues while driving just fine once they're in a car. Have you ever given away used home health aid items on craigslist? It can be a pretty sad scene.
Did she ram her car through the front door?
Sorry, I had misread the comment I was responding to. I had already covered what it was actually asking in my original comment - parking near a cart someone else abandoned, or failing that making her way to the closest one despite difficulty.