This was being covered on another forum. Thought it was interesting.





If you think about it, society has all kinds of litmus tests like this. What do y'all think about it?

another test is whether or not you're willing to outright lie, hide or at least shade the truth for money...

It's a pretty good test. At the Aldi near me, many people even leave the quarter they paid to get the cart in the cart, when they return it to the rows of carts outside the doors. Often there is 5 to 8 carts that were returned, with the quarter still in them. I do the same. Blacks and Hispanics are rare in my county, but twice I've seen black people and once I've seen a Hispanic person, plugging all the carts together and taking all the quarters. I've never seen a white person doing that.

We had a lot of little honor stands with garden produce, eggs, jams, jellies and honey in my area. Many are gone now. One of the owners told me they stopped because Hispanic people were coming and taking everything without paying. They put cameras up and turned the footage over to the Sheriff's department but nothing ever happened about it.

Keith

It amazes me how many slobs throw there trash including cigarette buts out the window or just throw it out period.

Took my cart back into Menards the other day then realized they go through the other cart doors. LOL The customer service lady said she would take care of it then.

My wife does the shopping

Had a few back surgeries and I was greatful for the "slobs" that didn't return the carts. I would park right next to it and use it instead of hobbling across the lot for one.
I always return it now that I'm healthy. And I vote.

There's always 2 sides to a story.

Are some people societies slobs? Yes indeed. But one of those carts could have been left by your 92 year old grandmother who was too weak and feeble to bring it back. If I see that type of situation I get the cart for them.

But I do understand your shopping cart analogy. Guess I just wanted to play the devils advocate

take a look around the entryways of many stores (especially in strip malls)...how many plastic flossers do you see?

I see them things in the strangest places, way out in the woods where you wouldn't think anyone has been in years, and here is a plastic flosser laying on the ground. What, are you hiking along and think, "you know what I should do? I should floss my teeth! Haven't done it in hours!"

If I gotta check myself out , buy a bag , bag my stuff .......I might be inclined to leave a cart in the back 40

Here's more.....

Shooting:

A) ducks on the water,

B) doves on the powerline, or

C) quail on the ground.

Not illegal, but a test that shows your true colors.

I think some hunters dip those flossers in doe urine or other scent and hang them in trees. I've seen sticky looking fluid on them. I also think hunters use them to mark distance. When I used to hunt public ground, I'd see those hanging on trails and near deer stands.

Keith

If more people shot ducks on the water the world would be a better place. I haven't shot a duck for 30 years but my record still stands with 7 ducks killed with one shot from a 410

Nice

Takes a lot of patience to group up that many heads.

When I was a teenager my dad told me that ‘if you’re too big to do the little thing you’re probably to little to do the big things.’

Sometimes I take it back to the store. If, I ran this country, people wouldn't like it.

...and here is the person that don't push the shopping cart to the cart corral. Probably wouldn't even consider returning the cart back inside the store......lol

Plus, depending on the duck species, you may have killed over the limit...so, you'd likely steal the shopping cart, too.....lol

Mr. Swamp, there’s something to be said for a spread good enough to make em land and not just circle or do a fly by. Just sayin’.

And I do return my cart

Not illegal, but neither is leaving the cart out in the parking lot....just sayin'.....Lol

Exactly. Why deny a young man a job gathering shopping carts?

Reminds me of a young man a few years back that was interviewing to be a Georgia game warden (I was on the hiring board.) I asked the young man to tell me about his outdoor experience. He said he had lots of outdoor experience because he used to work at Walmart gathering shopping carts in the parking lot.

He was NOT hired.......

....I mean is it really that big of a moral deal ? I see the cart guy getting carts and he's only like 30' away... Why no just save him and me some time and push the cart over to him ?

If someone can push a cart all the way through the store and to their car (full of items), they’re certainly able to return it when it’s empty of items.

Doves on a power lines illiegal here, and in most states i think. As for ducks on the water, my whole goals to finish ducks in the decoy. Aint above a good water swat.

Yes capable of pushing it back to the store, but most old or crippled people use it as a walking aid. That way they don't have to load and unload their walker.
In this case it's about COMPASSION PennaTrapper for the old and feeble.
NOT for lazy people that just don't care

One practical reason is because the cart you leave might roll into someone's car before the lucky employee gets it. Regardless, he'll have a job anyway as he has to retrieve the carts from the corral.

My thoughts on the test.

Walking the cart back into the store or helping someone by taking their cart back in are at the top of the best options, in my opinion. But there's nothing wrong with using the corral.

There's no reward for returning the cart to the store or walking 10 yards to the corral. There's no penalty if you leave the cart.

This is about voluntarily accepting responsibility and having character to do something good without reward. Some folks only do what's right when compelled or when they receive an individual benefit. That's what makes this interesting.

Would Trump return a shopping cart?

After he gold plated it it probably.

Would any politician?

Interesting....Here, most people do NOT return carts to the store, or the corrals, of course some do but it's usually because a corral is close by....People that use the handicapped spots usually leave theirs in the blue thatched areas for the next person. People will grab a cart in the parking lot close to where they parked, or park there BECAUSE theres a cart handy, lol, Every store has a cart boy.

I will occasionally return a cart to the store, or corral, but usually there's a person waiting for your cart as you unload it, instead of searching for one. lol

Must be a cultural regional thing...

One fly in the ointment of this so called test that gets the cart, or more properly the buggy, before the horse.

Expectations.

What says it of a society that expects certain behaviors vs voluntary social behaviors?

I personally choose the best behavior most conducive to a polite society based upon the circumstances given. My buggy return varies from walking it back into the store, handing it off to an employee gathering buggies or to a new arriving shopper, to positioning at the curb adjacent to the entry crosswalk, to walking it back to the nearest convenient corral if the store has had the forethought to provide one within range.

Are we being polite because it's the right thing to do or imposing it upon others?

One of the big questions fishing tourists ask when I'm guiding is "Are there many wardens here?" I wonder why? Of course, I lie and tell them, "All the time"

I like shopping carts, it’s something to lean on while someone else shops…

People who just leave them in the parking lot should be removed from society.

I just carry the bags....toxically masculine men do stuff like that

Lol

This is what I do. And I must be bulking up Saturday I carried 120 dollars worth of groceries in one trip! G.

We just carry ours out too. Also park far from front door and out in more open part of the lot when we can.
Saves door dings and we get a little extra steps and carrying exercise too.
Jim

That theory was relevant years ago most cart handling systems are not set up for returning the carts back to the stores now.

Lot of places here really don't seem to mind leaving carts in the parking lot, but would like to keep them IN the parking lot, lol
See a lot of places have an electronic wheel lock, if you get too far from the store it locks up, sorta like a invisible dog fence....

So if I get a few carts together and push them back to the store on my way inside it must mean I'm citizen of the year??

Sainthood maybe.

Now we wait for some guy to bring one back and park it in the wrong spot and get chewed out. LOL

Nobody sees the irony here give it some thought,