I sincerely hope you never dislocate your knee and still have to go shopping.

This is such hot garbage. Like I'm sorry but people stare and laugh when I bring my wheelchair to the store but then stand to reach a shelf. I've so often barely finished shopping out of exhaustion

Have to take a break after entering the store. Have to take a break halfway through. Have to take a break before check out. Have to take a break before parking lot. Take a longer break recouping in the car because groceries are fucking heavy with a spinal fracture.

Just because someone CAN do a given task doesn't mean they can do it to the ability level of everyone else. Nor can they do it without longterm consequences, yes I can walk a few blocks, but I'll be unable to move at all the next three days.

If someone says they can't do something because of physical limitations, leave them the fuck alone about it and accept people struggle in unseen ways.

I'm fully mobile now and do the same. I think the downvotes are funny, but thanks for the support.

The ironing of assuming the worst, that someone is ableist before using dehumanising language by referring to people as slime. Cant beat it. Dude was temporarily injured anyway.

Every person ever has an excuse to ditch trollies of varying validity. No one would ever answer “because I’m a lazy, inconsiderate arsehole” if asked why they left it. Which can easily explain people assuming he’s one of said people and the downvotes. As someone who’s disabled would say “Im disabled” or something to that effect, not “I hurt my knee”. Much more likely than they hold the physically disabled to the same standard or are assuming “everyone who’s disabled should have an aide”. Get a grip.

Yes, this is always an option available. There are always parking spots near the corrals, and the corrals are never in the middle of the parking lot, forcing a person with a disability to cover considerably more distance.

can walk around an entire store shopping with said cart, but can't spend a fraction if that walking to return it

You guys are some ablist mother fuckers.

I've had a borked knee before. Sometimes you start the shopping trip and feel fine, but by the time you've covered half your list you're leaning heavily on that shopping cart for support.

I'm lucky my partner was always able to return the cart for me because I'm not sure I could have made it back to the car after returning the cart to the cart stand.