You’re Never Too Old to Ride a Buggy Through the H-E-B Parking Lot

The rascal in the video at the bottom of this article is my spirit animal. Seriously, I'm fifty years old and I still jump up and ride on the back of my shopping cart any time I have the opportunity. How do you not?

Think about it: you leave H-E-B, bags full of groceries, when you notice something out of the corner of your eye. Not a car leaving a parking space, not a dash for the dairy for milk, but an adult man rolling down the parking lot in a grocery cart. No kids pushing him around, no prank being filmed. Just him, rolling along like the parking lot is his own racetrack.

Elderly Texan takes shopping cart for spin in H-E-B parking lot

You'll laugh at first. I mean, it's not exactly something you see every day when somebody is riding a grocery cart like it's a skateboard. But then you kind of get it. Life is stressful with school, work, bills, and responsibility. Maybe jumping into a shopping cart and just rolling around in the H-E-B parking lot is how this guy is reminding people that fun has no age limit.

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And it happened at H-E-B, so it's even nicer. If you've ever shopped in one, you'll know it's not a supermarket. It's almost a Texas cultural landmark. People say they like to tease that H-E-B is almost like a second home. Families visit there, friends become acquainted there, and now, I suppose, people climb buggies up and down the parking lot there.

Check out the video below: