Parking Lot Report

Here is what I witnessed at a local grocery parking lot:

Immediately after I pulled into a parking spot, a man pushed a shopping cart into an empty space near a truck with California license plates directly in front of me. As I watched, the man pulled his goods from the cart, shoved them inside his truck, and then rolled out of the parking lot, leaving his cart blocking access to an open parking spot.

I shook my head while tamping down a few bad words that rushed into my mind. Not more than a few seconds later, a man driving an SUV with Montana plates swooped into the spot alongside the cart. The man hopped from his car, latched onto the cart, and pushed it into a nearby cart collection corral on his way to the store.

End of parking lot report.

—Mitchell Hegman