I will accept this burden.
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usually, but if there's any reason, even one far short of an emergency, it's a coin toss.
if we lived in a different society, like an actual anarchist or communist society, I'm sure i would act differently. but I'm not sure we'd have shopping carts and grocery stores.
Gain nothing? How about self respect...
even though you gain nothing?
I call begging the question!
It assumes a purely capitalist worldview where the only way you can personally gain from an action is via monetary reward. I know I'm preaching to the choir here on Lemmy, but being in the US I think it's still worth pointing out because it's a full-on cultural disease.
Now, if you don't mind, I need to go spend most of my evening doing things that will seemingly gain me nothing. Omg what if I spend some money on materials I need for a hobby? NeGaTiVe gAiNz?!??
Better praxis
Disable the perimeter wheel lock sensor and then put it back.
Depends whether there’s any Teslas nearby that need blocking in
Return your cart and another that's nearby. Sacrifice a little extra time to...
Slow the Decay.
I want to live in a world where people return the shopping carts, therefore I do it myself. If you don't, you're an antisocial prick.
Sometimes I even fix the shit show of random carts in random return lanes so everything fits all neat.
Same. And I'm being serious here while it could sound sarcastic:
I feel good knowing I saved the cart return guy 15 seconds. His day will not be improved because he still needs to move all the carts; and when that task ends there will be another. I understand this, but I still feel like I made the place better than I found it. Where I am, it's hot-AF outside right now, so I hope that I'm making the next indoor task sooner and my time is appreciated -- but my time is literally like <1 minute, so I know it's not a lot of anti-entropy.
My math is that, with billions of people on the planet, if even part of us tried to save someone 15 seconds every few days, we could build so much faith in humanity.
I give the people in the handicapped spots a pass. They might not physically be able to go to the cart return and back.
OK, so the correct thing to do in this situation is tuck the cart behind or hook the wheels over a parking barrier/curb, or if there's no other option tip the cart onto its back/handle side. Don't just leave the cart loose rolling around. I've seen a gust of wind blow a loose cart into a parked car and smash the brake light cover out.
But also, if you're physically disabled to this level how are you using the shopping cart in the first place?
Or they may be totally capable but it will burn up their energy reserves for the day and have more stuff to get done.
Best not to judge, as you said.
Absolutely agree. I return mine every time and silently judge everyone who doesn't. It's the simplest thing in the world
There's no scripture about shopping carts therfore there's no eternal damnation looming over you if you don't put them back. Take that atheists!
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Back in the late '80s and early '90s my brother and I would run all over the parking lots while our mom was in the store, and return all the carts. We would see how big of a stack we could manage to get moving while we were at it. IIRC our record was 43 carts. We really wanted to hit 50, but I think that was just too much mass for us to handle.
I don't clear the lot anymore, but I do park out by the edge of a lot, if I brought my car, and pick up any carts on the way into the store.
Steal the carts and sell them back to the store for a finders fee.
Ugh, I rolled my ankle a couple weeks ago and still needed to do shopping that day. I was leaning on the cart to stabilize myself. I really did not want to have to walk the cart back to its corral at the end, because walking hurt like hell. But these memes, man, these memes guilted me into doing it anyway.
We have these coin lock trollies here.
I made a tool that bypasses the coin lock so I know that every time I return my trolley I am motivated purely by social concern and not self interest.
I am 100% serious, I wish I knew what was wrong with me.
This man invented a machine to prove his morality.
Not a man. The sexism of assuming everyone is sucks
I am motivated purely by social concern and not self interest.
In that case, allow me to fix that last line for you:
I am 100% serious, this is what's right with me.
Be the change and all that. Keep being socially conscious - we need that more than ever right now.
It's completely derranged to be so annoyed at the idea of being coerced into doing something that you buy a thing, pull it apart and figure out how it works, make a tool to bypass it, and continue doing exactly the same thing but now "freerer"
They hand out free plastic tokens for the trollies at the registers here in Lidl's in Denmark, and people still put their trolly back.
Yes yes, everything is better in denmark except the food. We are very tired of hearing this :p
Legacy of good ol' small town social control that we call "the law of Jante" in Northern Europe, rule 6 I think: "You're not to think you are more important than we are."
Only someone from a nordic country could look at satire of conformity and say "Good idea!" the remarks later in the article, my lord. While I'm all for a tight binding social contract I think you should be encouraged to be weird while fulfilling it!
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You can also use the round side of a key to bypass it.
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even though you gain nothing
This is Aldi, I get my quarter back.
I once paid 8 fucking bucks to use a cart at an airport. They give you a quarter back for returning it. I feel like they misunderstood the meaning of "deposit" but whatever, I absolutely did not return that shit and hopefully someone else saved 8 bucks.
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Always, because when I wear my heelys I can lift up the back of the cart and basically Tokyo drift through the parking lot and the looks I get fuel me.
Just be careful if there are women around, you don’t want to hydroplane
I love wearing my heelys while shopping. I push the cart hard then just hold on and coast. I love when I make eye contact with a child while their parent is busy and just wheel by them. When they tell them that the lady that just went by had wheels on her shoes and they see me standing looking at beans or something, they think the kid was lying.... Gaslighting lil Timmy with heelys.
Is it a co-op?
Yes, I return mine because I hate the chaos. I even got in a heated verbal altercation over someone putting theirs on the curb recently.
Always. Lazy sociopaths don't. The same people that don't use indicators, leave pee on the seat, and jump queues.
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