Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
except there are people like me who leave shopping carts where they land, in order to guarantee employment to people who will need it. By doing the work of others, one diminishes the opportunities for low ability employment which is sorely needed in our culture and explicated by Murry in various books.
If that makes me evil, I guess I am, but I see others who act like lemmings to be thoughtless and easily led.
Your account had that same flavor to me!
Character. It is what you do when nobody is looking.
read some of the posts about the s.c. 15 y.o. who was stopped from walking around while the pledge of allegiance was being recited. Its her right to be an ass, well its their right to support ass behavior and not feel bad about carts left anywhere in the parking lot. because asses hang together IE: democratic socalists.
People that do that really grind my beans. I hate lazy people like that and worse yet people like my wife (who works in a supermarket) have to waste their time picking up after lazy slobs who do this.
AMEN!
This. Before cart corrals were ubiquitous, I’d often leave my cart by the car, somewhere where it wouldn’t roll around. But when i went INTO the store, I always took two or three with me, unless there were none to be found. And back in those days, there were always PLENTY to be found. I don’t think I EVER saw someone bring an empty cart all the way back to the store. I actually worked for one summer bringing carts back. (And on the register, but carts were more fun.) I never looked at someone who left a cart behind as making me work, but rather as keeping me employed.
Thanks. New since I was last at an Aldi, I guess.
Seems creepy to me, but obviously a reflection on the character of our population.
Definitely part of my upbringing! (Though it did take some time to get that one to sink in!)
Character is what you do when you know you won’t get caught.
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True. And this shopping cart discussion puts me in mind of the disgusting people who litter public spaces. The dregs of society in my view. Probably why the word “trash” is often used in reference to trashy people!!
I only care about finding my car. Now that I'm really old, people are always offering to help me find my car. lol
Locking carts is unfair to the homeless.
Its not illegal not to return the shopping cart nor is it immoral. God will not judge you based on your shopping cart behavior. 95% of the time I dutifully return the shopping cart but occasionally I leave it propped on a curb or parking lot pole. I don’t steal it or abuse it. God doesn’t care.
I agree this WAS a good test.
Now that people are watching, the test is invalid.
Fall back is whether a person picks something up at a store, changes his or her mind and either returns it from whence it came or just puts it wherever.
I didn’t exactly date much, as I had an arranged marriage, but one arrangement that didn’t work was a lady who would just dump products wherever in a store. I broke it off. She ended up (a decade later) getting arrested for fraud.
EXCEPT ... some of us appreciate finding a cart in the parking lot. After cervical spine surgery a year or so back, I tend to wobble when I walk. So I really appreciate finding a cart next to my handicap parking spot. And the same for my wife.
Me, I take the shopping cart and load it with my possessions that were “borrowed “ from somebody else and then sleep on the sidewalk in front of somebody’s business.
Is that wrong?
Theoretically
I’ve seen them half-jammed
ANYTHING but for someone to walk 20-50 feet 🙄🙄
I like to sell my shopping carts to the homeless- doesn’t that make me a good person?
Simplistic but accurate, in my opinion.
Sadly, so much civility has disappeared from our society. Children who are not taught to be considerate and respectful grow up to be inconsiderate, self-centered adults.
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