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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 16:23:13 GMT -5
Ladies and gentleman, The Shopping Cart theory...  -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 13, 2020 16:43:03 GMT -5
^We've been having to hand clean shopping carts once customers are done with them. So it kind of irks me when they just leave them outside. It doesn't take much effort to push it back folks
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Post by The Captain on May 13, 2020 16:51:44 GMT -5
Ladies and gentleman, The Shopping Cart theory... -M I saw this yesterday and showed it to my wife. It triggered a good 20 minute discussion with our daughters about always doing the right thing, even if there are zero consequences for not doing it and zero rewards for doing it. They got where we were coming from, so I feel like that was a win. |
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Post by rberman on May 13, 2020 17:00:08 GMT -5
The "shopping cart theory" is a variation on Plato's observation that the moral man is the man who would do the right thing even if no one saw him, for instance if he were invisible.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2020 19:13:03 GMT -5
Ladies and gentleman, The Shopping Cart theory... -M My wife and are obsessive about shopping carts. Not only do we return them, but we grab all the loose ones we can find and make sure they’re all properly stacked before leaving. I view it as an affirmation of our existence. We, as living beings, are ordered creatures facing the second law of thermodynamics. Helping restore a little order, even if only in the parking lot of a grocery store, is a way of saying to the second law “this far, no further!!!” It’s also, of course, a matter of not acting like an a###.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 13, 2020 20:07:28 GMT -5
I pretty much have always returned the shopping cart. These days I park next to the shopping cart holder to make it easier.
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Post by impulse on May 13, 2020 20:13:21 GMT -5
It makes me irrationally angry when people lazily leave their carts around. Leaving them on the median in the parking long is one thing, but people will leave them in the aisles or just in the middle of the entrance of the store and not bother to push them in. Drives me crazy. Bagging groceries and gathering carts at this particular store was my first job and I suppose it has stuck with me, ha.
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 13, 2020 20:29:36 GMT -5
If I see a cart left in the parking lot, I will usually bring it into the store. I suppose that makes me a donor of a lonely cart.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 20:43:26 GMT -5
Shower Thoughts: When you get into a random altercation with a stranger (they're being too loud at a movie theater, they cut you in line, steal your parking space, shoulder check you without apologizing, blast their music on the bus, etc.) and ask them to stop indulging in their own selfishness, they respond with "well what are you going to do about it???" or "do something then!!!"
Depends. Someone was rude to me at a food court and I since I didn't put the lid on my coke yet I threw it in her face. Her bf couldn't really do anything, possibly 5ft 6 at best and my hubby is 6ft 5.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2020 20:44:22 GMT -5
If I see a cart left in the parking lot, I will usually bring it into the store. I suppose that makes me a donor of a lonely cart. You, sir, win the internet for the day!!!  |
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Post by berkley on May 13, 2020 20:46:47 GMT -5
If I see a cart left in the parking lot, I will usually bring it into the store. I suppose that makes me a donor of a lonely cart.
Much better than the donor of a broken cart, I hear. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 13, 2020 21:18:41 GMT -5
Sigh... I wish I could do an old fashioned Chuck Norris round house kick to the head instead... Yeah...would be cool. But even if you had those expertise powers to utilize, the law would be on your ass. Frontier justice is a pastime. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 13, 2020 21:19:55 GMT -5
Shower Thoughts: When you get into a random altercation with a stranger (they're being too loud at a movie theater, they cut you in line, steal your parking space, shoulder check you without apologizing, blast their music on the bus, etc.) and ask them to stop indulging in their own selfishness, they respond with "well what are you going to do about it???" or "do something then!!!"
Depends. Someone was rude to me at a food court and I since I didn't put the lid on my coke yet I threw it in her face. Her bf couldn't really do anything, possibly 5ft 6 at best and my hubby is 6ft 5.
Awww see that's just unfair. But I guess I'd be more brazen too if I had a 6'5" dude in my corner. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 13, 2020 21:20:58 GMT -5
I turn the other cheek. Not much worth fighting for that might result in tragedy. I heard a story of a pastor who lost his father because the father was cut off in traffic and he decided to confront the other driver. He was shot and killed. Damn. Did they catch the guy? I feel like confronting someone in traffic is probably the one situation where you really shouldn't get in someone's face. At least in America where there is a good chance they'll have a gun. Also, lack of witnesses, so a goblin might feel more comfortable pulling the trigger, and they make a speedy exit. If it's in a movie theater, I think folks are less likely to have a gun and in addition if there is an issue it's in a place where all eyes will be on the altercation. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 13, 2020 21:23:50 GMT -5
It makes me irrationally angry when people lazily leave their carts around. Leaving them on the median in the parking long is one thing, but people will leave them in the aisles or just in the middle of the entrance of the store and not bother to push them in. Drives me crazy. Bagging groceries and gathering carts at this particular store was my first job and I suppose it has stuck with me, ha. "WELL WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT!!! DO SOMETHING THEN!!!" Nah I'm just kidding. I used to get carts at Target during my first job. Not all day, but sometimes. I guess because it wasn't all day, it was cool when I got to do it. At least in contrast to dealing with people in the store. It was like a mini break. Got to go outside away from the nuthouse and be alone for a hot minute. |
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