When you’re walking into the store, do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral, or do you shake your head and curse whoever left it there, while leaving it there yourself, to get one at the door? Also, you could take one in from the corral, or you could return the one you used back to the front of the store, instead of the corral.
Taking it to the corral is not the only measure of a “good” person. Why don’t you do even more? Why don’t you take several carts from the corral to the store when you’re entering? You’re heading that way anyway. Because you’re not paid to do it, you say?
because there is cleaning up after yourself, and there is cleaning up after other people
I’ll take a convenient cart on my way into the store or gather a cart while taking my own to the corral (which rarely happens because I usually park near them in the first place when I use a cart), but I won’t go out of my way to get other carts that people left behind, because fuck them that’s their fucking job*. I will give them shit if I see them leaving them there though.
*to be clear lmao I mean it’s the cart user’s obligation to return the cart, not the employee’s job to gather up random shit across the lot
A just society requires you do to more than just police your own actions, you have to contribute to the commons to cover for the underprivileged that can’t.
Wrangling kids? Leave the cart.
Walking is painful? Leave the cart.
Don’t want to be late for something more important? Leave the cart.
I know almost always none of those are true for me, so I check around for carts to move into the corral or store both when I get there and once I’m done with the cart I ended up using. My good luck means I should improve the commons, not just avoid ruining it.
I normally walk into the store and try to hold my groceries with my two stupid hands. I was just getting a few things. And the a few more. Then I schlep around the store cursing the god that didn’t make me an octopus.
When you’re walking into the store, do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral, or do you shake your head and curse whoever left it there, while leaving it there yourself, to get one at the door? Also, you could take one in from the corral, or you could return the one you used back to the front of the store, instead of the corral.
Taking it to the corral is not the only measure of a “good” person. Why don’t you do even more? Why don’t you take several carts from the corral to the store when you’re entering? You’re heading that way anyway. Because you’re not paid to do it, you say?
because there is cleaning up after yourself, and there is cleaning up after other people
I’ll take a convenient cart on my way into the store or gather a cart while taking my own to the corral (which rarely happens because I usually park near them in the first place when I use a cart), but I won’t go out of my way to get other carts that people left behind, because fuck them that’s their fucking job*. I will give them shit if I see them leaving them there though.
*to be clear lmao I mean it’s the cart user’s obligation to return the cart, not the employee’s job to gather up random shit across the lot
This ^
A just society requires you do to more than just police your own actions, you have to contribute to the commons to cover for the underprivileged that can’t.
Wrangling kids? Leave the cart. Walking is painful? Leave the cart. Don’t want to be late for something more important? Leave the cart.
I know almost always none of those are true for me, so I check around for carts to move into the corral or store both when I get there and once I’m done with the cart I ended up using. My good luck means I should improve the commons, not just avoid ruining it.
I normally walk into the store and try to hold my groceries with my two stupid hands. I was just getting a few things. And the a few more. Then I schlep around the store cursing the god that didn’t make me an octopus.