Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
i once returned a cart to the good will store after finding it left in a field.
does that make me a bad guy?
About 20 years ago, I saw a woman move their cart from the parking lot over the curb and onto the grass. I said, “saw that.” (The cart return corral was nearby like they all are.) She launched on me like a tyrannosaurus karen. I shook my head at her and walked away. The lazy old bat.
I sometimes gather extra carts.
I think part of it is I can’t stand seeing someone get their car needlessly pinged, and part of it is so that whenever I come in, I don’t want to navigate around them.
Plus, it looks third-world to have them just all over the place. Now, it is the norm.
100% of the time when I shop at Aldi’s.
I do the exact opposite. I think “let me donate 25 cents to the next person”. If I have just emptied my cart and I see someone getting out of their car, I’ll say “have my cart” without an expectation of payment.
honor is a gift a man gives himself.
Oh sure. It’s noble to ruin entry level jobs for those who need work and are willing to work. Just like self checkout, you are not helping anybody. If it makes you feel good though, go for it.
I’ve pushed some hundreds of yards in the woods/ logging roads, closer to a gate on the road, but I was going that way, anyway. Loaded up some trash along the way. I’m not pushing them a 1/2 mile or more farther to the various stores they belong to. I might climb down or rig a line to pull one up a slope. Make of that what you will. Mostly, I don’t like seeing them in the woods. Apparently some homeless people are bad people.
That’s just how I was raised. :-)
I do the same. Sometimes there are no carts in the store, so I automatically bring one in from outside.
Once I load up the truck, I return it to the proper place and never leave it in the lot.
Shopping carts left scattered all over the parking lot are an illustration of why socialism and communism fails.
“I always take my cart back...to get the quarter.”
Isn’t that only Aldi?
I’ve always returned my cart because I like to show off knowing how a cart return works.
Never used to be concerned about cart return until I bought my first new car. Parked it in the back forty to be safe but there was a loose shopping cart that dented the door. I was sick. Ever since I will put mine back and round up nearby loose ones too.
PS. That was the only damage on that car ever!
“I actually bring a cart or two in when I first go into the store.”
If the carts in the parking lot are anywhere near where I park, I always take a cart from the lot into the store. Only a couple of stores in Central Virginia have the quarter requirement so there’s almost always a cart to take back in.
My wife taught me that the best parking spots are those near the cart returns.
WalMart, before a good storm is fun to watch. People stocking up, and unloading in the rain will leave carts wherever they finish with them. After the storm, the carts are blown up against the curb on the leeward side of the parking lot, like so many leaves.
LOL! Right on.
“Some people at Walmart will make extra effort to jam one up on a curb rather than return it”
At least it won’t roll into someone’s car.
I always return things I use to there proper place. And, if there are carts that lazy, unethical people leave loose in the parking lot, I generally gather those so they are not a hazard or impede others parking. It disgusts me that so many people are so lazy they can’t return the cart they borrowed to its corral, which is usual a very short distance away.
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