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People who put shopping carts back versus people who just leave them around the parking lot.
Or people who walk away from their trays in a fast food restaurant rather than cleaning up after themselves.
Whenever I've begun a relationship with anyone, whether romantic or business, I always watch to see how that person treats the waiter. Because in six months that's how that person will be treating me.
Yep. I remember hearing a minister talk about this years ago.
If I can't count on you to do the right thing with easy stuff like returning your shopping cart, how will I count on you to do the right thing when it's difficult?
Read the article, then look at the comments below it, which the writer acknowledged in advance, that there are exceptions to very rule. I am a cart "deserter". I leave it on the four corners of the spots, where someone can park and usually get it out if no other car is too far over. I never just leave it IN a space, meaning never where it would prevent someone from pulling in. If the corral is right next to me, then I'll put it in. I don't work there, it's someone else's job to collect carts. You can put it on one of those medians, too. Another exception is a person with difficulty walking may use the cart to lean on. If it's right there as they get out of their car, the walk inside is a lot easier for them. I don't think it's a black and white issue.
The only thing that is black and white is it is wrong to leave a cart so that someone cannot pull into a space, or behind the car next to you as you drive off.
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I am so bad I even straighten up the carts in the cart corral. Nothing worse than a cart corral that looks full when there really are very few carts in there.
If no cart corral near me, I walk the cart back to the store. I can always use the exercise. Lazy is just that, lazy.
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Read the article, then look at the comments below it, which the writer acknowledged in advance, that there are exceptions to very rule. I am a cart "deserter". I leave it on the four corners of the spots, where someone can park and usually get it out if no other car is too far over. I never just leave it IN a space, meaning never where it would prevent someone from pulling in. If the corral is right next to me, then I'll put it in. I don't work there, it's someone else's job to collect carts. You can put it on one of those medians, too. Another exception is a person with difficulty walking may use the cart to lean on. If it's right there as they get out of their car, the walk inside is a lot easier for them. I don't think it's a black and white issue.
The only thing that is black and white is it is wrong to leave a cart so that someone cannot pull into a space, or behind the car next to you as you drive off.
Yeah. Don't buy it. I mean people get paid to pick up litter in public parks. So is it okay to leave the detritus of your picnic around to avoid that tedious fifty-yard trudge to the garbage can?
I don't know about you but I live in a rather hilly part of the country where there's almost no such thing as a perfectly flat parking lot. So all you need is a little puff of wind, and suddenly that abandoned shopping cart becomes a battering ram, hurtling down the hill to put a nice, fat scratch in someone else's side panel.
Further, when you put it on the four corners, you do create an issue for someone trying to park no matter how much you rationalize matters.
Read the article, then look at the comments below it, which the writer acknowledged in advance, that there are exceptions to very rule. I am a cart "deserter". I leave it on the four corners of the spots, where someone can park and usually get it out if no other car is too far over. I never just leave it IN a space, meaning never where it would prevent someone from pulling in. If the corral is right next to me, then I'll put it in. I don't work there, it's someone else's job to collect carts. You can put it on one of those medians, too. Another exception is a person with difficulty walking may use the cart to lean on. If it's right there as they get out of their car, the walk inside is a lot easier for them. I don't think it's a black and white issue.
The only thing that is black and white is it is wrong to leave a cart so that someone cannot pull into a space, or behind the car next to you as you drive off.
To me, the polite thing is to put the cart in the corral where it belongs. Carts have a habit of rolling no matter how careful you are about placing it, why take a chance that it will ding someone's car? It's also sometimes hard to get a cart out of a "fours corners" spot, if all the four spots are occupied. The cart retrievers are most likely making minimum wage, and (at least where I live) are very often mentally challenged in addition to the low pay. Why make it harder for them?
To me, it is the epitome of laziness to not put your cart where it belongs. Exceptions, of course, to someone alone trying to herd young kids (where returning the cart would put the children at some risk), or are physically disabled in a way that makes it hard for them. But otherwise, what makes you so special that everyone needs to cater to you laziness?
I like the Aldi solution the best. You must put in a quarter to free the cart from the corral. When you return the cart, your quarter is refunded as soon as you return the locking mechanism.
There are no carts in the parking lot, hence no need for cart corrals or people needed to round up carts.
But, that's a bit off-topic, isn't it? Essentially, the author is praising basic human decency. I could not agree more.
Yeah. Don't buy it. I mean people get paid to pick up litter in public parks. So is it okay to leave the detritus of your picnic around to avoid that tedious fifty-yard trudge to the garbage can?
I don't know about you but I live in a rather hilly part of the country where there's almost no such thing as a perfectly flat parking lot. So all you need is a little puff of wind, and suddenly that abandoned shopping cart becomes a battering ram, hurtling down the hill to put a nice, fat scratch in someone else's side panel.
Further, when you put it on the four corners, you do create an issue for someone trying to park no matter how much you rationalize matters.
In order to facilitate runoff, parking lots are generally graded. Some parking lots may be less sloped than others, but any decent parking lot will have a small bit of slope to it, at least.
Yep. I remember hearing a minister talk about this years ago.
If I can't count on you to do the right thing with easy stuff like returning your shopping cart, how will I count on you to do the right thing when it's difficult?
Yep. The same is true about honesty. If someone is dishonest in the small things, he won't be honest in the big things.
I had an employee once like that. Twenty years ago, several of us were traveling on business. Between meetings, we were going to have a nice, relaxed two-hour lunch. So I asked one employee to get a newspaper out of the box so we could check if there was anything to do in town that night.
He put his quarter in the box and took out four newspapers. I made him go back, put in another quarter and put back two. Because it never occurred to him that he was stealing. Never fully trusted that guy after that. He wound up going from job to job, continually getting fired from various jobs and acquired kind of an iffy reputation.
In order to facilitate runoff, parking lots are generally graded. Some parking lots may be less sloped than others, but any decent parking lot will have a small bit of slope to it, at least.
Which makes my point even more.
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Nothing worse than a cart corral that looks full when there really are very few carts in there. 
