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Yup, not worth the potential trauma.

But, here come those with "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".

Q

Haaha Good prediction Q.

Look, I get it. I'm lazy too! I don't *want* to return the cart, but it is the objectively RIGHT thing to do in most every circumstance.

So, to allow for both my laziness and for doing the right thing I simply park by a cart corral. More often then not I can park right next to one in the back half of the lot. This saves me from door-dingers on one side and allows me to be lazy while still doing the right thing by putting the cart away.

AND it forces me to walk a little further to the store, which my lazy tushie certainly needs but needs some external motivation to do.

Seriously though, 7/10 times I go shopping at a grocery store (3 stores every week) I can park right next to a corral. 2/10 I'm only one space a away. Only 1/10 times is the corral more than 20 feet from my car. Just put the dang shopping cart away, people.

What really busts my chaps is when I witness someone not putting it away who is literally parked next to the corral. That is just sickening.

If you're confronting people for not putting a shopping cart back where they got it, you're part of the problem.

There's only 10 million battles more worthy of fighting, that's all.

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Originally posted by PASig:
...why should we just let this crap continue?

Because it simply does not matter, that's why. If this is all you have to worry about, you're living on easy street.

People suck. Always have, always will.

Personally, if I'm going to take a chance on being killed by one for "doing the right thing" it's damn sure going to be more important than the placement of a shopping cart.

If you don't have any loved ones that are counting on you and will miss you, then oh well I guess.

I experimented with saying something to these assholes. By the second or third time I had said something to someone I had a woman curse me every way possible in front of her kids. I decided that I have better things to spend my time on

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:


So, I park in a handicapped spot and when people see me, I get a few strange looks, like hey, you're not handicapped although nobody has said anything.

You park in the spot when your wife isn't with you?

You saw that too ?

I think it's one thing to CASUALLY call somebody out for being lazy, it's another thing to go out of your way, go up to somebody and make such a point, and then emphasize it with an explicative. Inviting trouble.

You go to Germany and people loose their shit if you cross against the stop light, 'set a good example for the children' they'd admonish you. Social conformity is a thing there, same in Japan, Scandinavia and other places.

Right now, there's bigger things to worry about. Maybe next time ask if they want you to take the cart back, giving a not so subtle implication that THEY were too lazy to do it themselves.

If everyone in the world was reasonable, you could do stuff like this with impunity. The problem is that you don't know who you're confronting. As a relatively mild example, you might try that stunt with someone like me, in which case, you would be told to go fuck yourself.

Other, less reasonable people might proceed to stomp a mudhole in your ass. You just don't know who you're fooling with.

You’d get bored at the ALDIs. Everybody wants their quarter back.
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I bet you Jesus Christ wouldn't care about such trespass. In fact, he might just forgive the bastard.

I hear your reasoning, for sure. And how you point it out might be important, and more.
But, may I respectfully ask? I don’t think I missed this part. Were you armed?
If so, and things escalated, it could be a terrible thing.
If not, and things escalated, it could be (almost as) terrible a thing.
Just saying.

I used to push carts at a wholesale club 30 years ago. I have a personal policy whenever I go to a store: I contribute no carts to the parking lot. If I will need one, I bring one in from the lot, do my shopping, and leave it in the cart corral when I'm done. If I can carry whatever I bought to the car, I'll leave the cart in the store.

Cart Narcs are just as bad as the Cart Abandoners.

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Originally posted by PASig:
It just seems to me that in general, and especially since the pandemic, that society in general is getting more and more rude and starting to degenerate.

I don't see how cursing someone out isn't adding to the overall rudeness you are lamenting.

to go around confronting strangers is not a wise thing to do. sooner or later you will find trouble

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Originally posted by 12131:
I bet you Jesus Christ wouldn't care about such trespass. In fact, he might just forgive the bastard.

Or maybe he'd go all money-lenders-in-the-Temple on them if he'd ever had his car scuffed up by a "free range" cart, courtesy of one of those jackwads.

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Originally posted by selogic:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:


So, I park in a handicapped spot and when people see me, I get a few strange looks, like hey, you're not handicapped although nobody has said anything.

You park in the spot when your wife isn't with you?

You saw that too ?

Amazing how quickly people jump to conclusions, isn't it?

I didn't say I parked in handicapped without her and you didn't ask.

The answer is no, I don't park in handicapped unless she's with me. I'm not that big an asshole and thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt...not.

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"YOU LAZY DICK!”

You found someone in public doing something you didn't like, so you shouted this at a total stranger and we're supposed to applaud this?

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Originally posted by PASig:
It just seems to me that in general, and especially since the pandemic, that society in general is getting more and more rude and starting to degenerate. People driving like assholes, driving up the shoulder, doing all sorts of dick moves while on the roads, this kind of stuff, the shopping centers, I’ve had enough of it.

Ok, then.

It takes no effort for someone to return a cart to the coral. So leaving it in the lot is pure laziness. Add on top that the left cart is now taking up a parking space. And could start rolling and scratch/dent someone's car. How people handle shopping carts is a great test of character.

My second job was being a stock boy at K-Mart (before Wally Mart was popular) and part of my job was getting carts. It was either too hot in summer or cld as can be in winter (and it was a pain getting them in the snow). Not once was I mad for people to putting them up, I got paid to bring them in, that was part of my job.

I do not get the disdain for people and carts, we know people are lazy and this seems minor to me.What has been state dis true, it would be a shame for you to get shot (or shoot someone else) over a shopping cart. Yes, I put my carts up but be glad you lie in a country where you worry about something this small. Honestly, if I were you I would avoid stores altogether if this gets you worked up. Stress over something so minor will affect your health. Don't worry, be happy.