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That's a good one. Also, you can observe how clean or dirty their car is (inside and out).
Well, the shining exception to that is if they have kids. Before I had kids, my car would have passed inspection by an annoyed brigadier general. When we had three small children, our car would have been condemned by the EPA. Now that they are all adults with their own cars, I'm back to having a clean car once again.
That's a good one. Also, you can observe how clean or dirty their car is (inside and out).
Eh, I don't know about that. I always return my cart, will bring it all the way back into the store, if I have to, but my car isn't very clean. I have a 75# dog and a horse and am always hauling horse gear and whatever around. My car is also not garaged, so it ends up covered with dust and whatever. The cleanliness of my car is not a priority for me, but it affects no one but me, so I don't think you can really compare it to the cart return thing.
My truck gets washed when it needs it. Additional washings seem to scare it into submission - who wants to get traded in after what we have been through together? I can wear white shorts but you can write your memoirs on the hood.
As I do not frequent fast food joints I will make it a point to do so should I ever be in need of a permanent room mate again which I hopefully will not be.
Iused to work at a college that trained nurses. There was a break area outside with two large ashtrays and a couple of benches. 90% of these students would throw their cigarette butts on the ground next to the ashtray. This greatly disturbed me. If these folks were going to be healthcare workers and were too lazy to use the ashtray that was RIGHT THERE, what kind of nurses were they going to be?
I return my cart and put the dirty tray back but I hardly think that makes me some kind of saint. I'm not sure if it points towards character or more so to laziness. It is annoying but not the final judgment on someone's moral compass.
I return my cart and put the dirty tray back but I hardly think that makes me some kind of saint. I'm not sure if it points towards character or more so to laziness. It is annoying but not the final judgment on someone's moral compass.
It's not a "final" judgment, but when it comes to character actions definitely speak louder than words.
I return my cart and put the dirty tray back but I hardly think that makes me some kind of saint. I'm not sure if it points towards character or more so to laziness. It is annoying but not the final judgment on someone's moral compass.
It doesn't make one a saint. It makes you someone who is, at a basic and fundamental level, considerate of others.
My grandfather used to say two things: "It's not what people say, but rather what people do, that matters" and "Character is what someone does when no one else is watching." Mind you, we are talking about able-bodied, functioning adults. Heck, even when I had three small children having meltdowns in the grocery store lot, it would have never occurred to me to just leave the shopping cart outside the receptacle. You put the kids in the car seat, then put the cart back.
Someone who would simply abandon a shopping cart in the lot isn't just lazy, but rather unthinking about the effect their action (Or lack thereof) could have for other people's convenience, not to mention property. It's the little things that reveal who you are, you know.
On a scale of 1 to 10 I would think that returning the cart would rank a 2 on the morality chart just behind holding the door open.
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