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[RANT] The virtue of returning a shopping cart (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago by elfpie@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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After seeing this discussion being brought up again, I was going to genuinely ask you all to explain where that comes from. I’m from Brazil and I don’t recall ever shopping at a place with a large parking lot, which I believe might be part of the issue. I was thinking how come people value this act so much and before starting to write a post here I sent a message to a friend, then it hit me: it’s absurd.

I mean it. The feeling I had reading the comments wasn’t confusion or ignorance, it was the cognitive dissonance of looking at the world I live in and what people decided marks a person as decent. This is one of the moments I really have to stop and check if I’m not actually the crazy one. I really can’t think of something smaller to care about that someone else will defend so vehemently. Really, try me, I’m already broken again.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Returning the cart, or at least moving it out of the road, means I don't have to get out of my car and ~~lob the cart at your car as you drive off~~ move the cart out of the way to park my car. Decency has nothing to do with what you do for yourself - it's all about what you do for others.

Personally I don't really care where the cart is as long as it's out of the way and not a problem for the store's staff to access it.