Ever forget something in your shopping cart?

My notebook, but it had a lot of financial information so I was panicky on my 17 mile drive back to Wal-Mart. So happy to get it back.

I've found 2 canes in shopping carts. Always hoped the owners remembered where they had left them.

I found a kid in a shopping cart once...that count? Lol

I left my handbag hanging off the little hook under the handle once 😳 Placed the cart back in the trolley bay and drive off .I was so lucky someone honest found it and handed it in at customer servuce .

Left my purse twice in the shopping cart @ Walmart 1 1/2 hours away. This Walmart was in a sketchy area. Both times it was turned into customer service. Pain in the butt to drive an additional 3 hours to retrieve it.  

I once left a small bottle of heavy whipping cream that I needed for a recipe in the cart. I had put it in the drink holder of the small cart so it would stay upright, but of course forgot about taking it when I transferred the bags to the car. I discovered it was missing when I got home and went back to the store right away, receipt in hand. The store is close by, and it'a a good thing I went back so soon, because someone was just taking that cart out of the cart trolley (like a good pea I returned my cart to the trolley, LOL!), so I said "Excuse me, this is mine - I accidentally left it in the cart", and retrieved it. It was still cold, so we both just had a laugh about it and went our separate ways.

Now, forgetting something in the CAR after bringing groceries in the house is another matter altogether...I once left a can of frozen OJ concentrate, and of course you know what happened. It popped open as soon as it thawed and dribbled sticky OJ all over the floor of the car, and then it started fermenting before I found it - ugh! It was a mess but didn't smell nearly as awful as when I did the same thing with a can of refrigerated biscuit dough - yikes, that one was a huge mess and smelled horrid!! Both times it was a can that had rolled out of the bag and under the back seat of my minivan, so no one saw it when unloading the groceries. We only found it later, either when the can rolled out, or we smelled the results - YUK!

I once left a brand new iPad in a cart at the grocery store cart corral. I rushed back to the store about an hour later and it was waiting for me in customer service. One of the baggers had turned it in.

One thing I loved about that grocery store was that they generally hired mentally disabled employees to work as baggers. I tracked down the manager and told him what the bagger had done. I gave the bagger a little cash reward after getting the manager’s approval to do so.

I noticed the next month the bagger was named the employee of the month!

😱 how does someone leave their kid behind like that???

I was coming out of WM a few years back and I unloaded my stuff into car and brought the cart to the corral place (because I'm a good Pea like that LOL 😉) and there was this kid just hanging out there in the cart. I'm horrible with ages on kids but he had a diaper on but was way too big for a carrier so I'm guessing maybe he was 2? I stood there thinking maybe the parent was coming back..5mins ago by and no one was coming and it was hot as hell so I took the kid and put him into my car with air on called the cops and they came..asked me what happened I explained..then guess who shows up? The mother. Mom is freaking out because she was "so stressed out and she thought she put him in his car seat" but pissed off that I called the cops and starts yelling me at saying she was only gone for not even five mins. Complete 100% lie. At this point I'm about to lose my shit on this chick. Long story short..I left and cop had my info but I never heard anything else from it. 

I can't imagine.  I hope the cop took it seriously and got the boy to a place he'd be safe--and have the mom checked out at a hospital or something before she got him back!  That is pretty incredible.  

That's what I was thinking..when I put him in the car I kept thinking "omg some random person will thinking I'm kidnapping this kid" lol.

I'm another that managed to leave my purse in the cart at Publix and went home. Started looking for my phone first...realized it was in my purse. But oh, where is that? Called my phone expecting to hear it ringing somewhere in my house or car. Nope, it was answered by customer service at Publix. An employee retrieving carts from the parking lot had brought it in. I DO love Publix.

Couple of months ago, I was at the same Publix, MY Publix. You Florida people will understand the "MY Publix" part. Grabbed a cart from just outside the doors and someone's big old wallet was sitting right in the front basket area. I turned it in at customer service and thought, "That lady is going to be as giddy with relief as I was."