You gain a world where people don't see you do shitty things and then get ideas.
It's dumb to say that good things that help everybody are nothing, in part because it's a lie.
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This is why people need an imaginary sky daddy to tell them to return the cart.
I'll do you one further, do you take a cart from the corral on the way in if you know you need a cart?
Not true. I gain 1 €, 50 ¢, or at least a nice plastic token.
Yes, every single time and fuck people who don't
Even though you have to go through all that effort of easily pulling the lever?
There’s an entire subset of the population that didn’t want to wash their hands during the pandemic, the bar is much lower than this.
If you ever go for a shit in a men's public toilet, especially in a pub, you get to be lucky enough to hear multiple people not washing their hands after a piss.
I was in a bathroom recently, and a guy used a urinal, then the hand-drier, then left.
He got enough urine on his hands that he decided that he needed to dry them, but still chose to not wash his hands.
People are gross.
And this is why you use hand sanitiser even after washing your hands. Like you would expect the dryer not to be covered in piss, and yet.....
Every time I use a public restroom I'm reminded how much better urethral health I must have compared to the average man... The sounds of sheer pain some of these guys make while literally just taking a whiz is... I dunno, saddening? I wouldn't even know that lots of men moan and shudder and groan while peeing if it weren't for public restrooms. What are the normie men doing to their cocks???
The shudder is not consider a sign of bad health but so far no studies had been performed to confirm the exactly cause.
If it comes out in a series of bursts, something might be seriously wrong with their prostates.
Prostate issues - usually manifesting as trouble pissing - are quite common especially in older men, but it's an embarassing subject so people don't usually talk about it
I didn't think this had anything to do with urethral health. Sometimes it just feels so good if you've been holding for a length of time. I moan occasionally, but it has nothing to do with pain as much as relief.
I also wash my hands every time and talk shit to people who don't, cause I'm huge and can get away with stuff like that(read don't put yourself in danger, I'm doing it enough for both of us)
Pick up speed, hop on and skate that mf to the cart storage. Personal gain unlocked.
For me the gain is a dopamine release in knowing I made someone else's job just a little bit easier.
Same feeling when you put back the weights at the gym. I can‘t stand people who just litter the plates all around on the floor.
(I might suggest that making good alt-texts on Lemmy may be another good example. Yes, I transcribed that whole screenshot into the alt-text by clicky-clacking.)
The shopping cart gremlins will kill you. You don’t know about them because they leave no survivors.
you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart.
That's totally not true; you encourage the continual framework of a civilized society, which should benefit you in the long run as an uncivilized, every-person-for-themself environment is generally much harder to deal with overall.
It is hardly a litmus test, which by definition is pivotal, sure, but has nothing to do with the level of sacrifice attached.
I know it's a tongue-in-cheek 4chan image, but I just felt like going serious on this anyway. I feel like a real litmus test is seeing someone in need and choosing to help them or not.
I pushed carts at a retail store in highschool. I always appreciated when people returned their carts.. not so much for my convenience, but out of respect for people's cars. I've definitely seen a few slam into cars after people just leave them wherever.
Elderly folks or people with mobility issues I totally get. You're cool, do what you need to do. But the lazy entitled ones drive me nuts.
If everyone who was able to put the carts back, it would make a significant difference. In my country, the disabled parking is often adjacent to a pedestrian walkway that cuts through the car park. People often leave the carts in this walkway, which means that it's quite often that I'm unable to park because all the disabled parking spaces have a trolley that's drifted into them
I put the cart away cause it's fun to get a running start and then hopping on and riding it across the parking lot
Must be nice to be skinny!
Man it sucks to be huge. I used to love doing that. Especially doing it from the front of the cart and doing some sick drifts.
What you need is some decently sized children to put in the cart to act as a counterweight (kids love that shit too; some of my happiest memories as a kid is being allowed to sit in the cart as my mom was shopping, and having her pile up the groceries on top of me until I'm just a head poking out. If she knew how happy that made me, I reckon she would have done it more often.
ALDI solved this with the carts that take a coin. If someone doesn't want to return it, and leaves it in the parking lot, someone else will return it to get the coin.
I happened to see this the other day at ALDI. I promptly grabbed it and left it in the corral with the quarter when I was done shopping to pass along to someone else though.
Somebody inevitably always mentions this in shopping cart social theory threads.
You must understand, the discussion is not actually about how to solve the issue of shopping carts being returned. The treatment of shopping carts is being used as an illustration of a concept.
You just need a small bread knife to pop the coin back out.
Who's going to bring a bread knife with them to Aldi though? Just bring it back or give it to someone on their way in if you're that lazy (I've totally done that more than once).
You don't have to use a bread knife, just something bread knife like.
Like a coin?
Lol, when I got the notification it just shows your name at first and I was like "wait who did I piss off? I only engage in one political argument a day and this one ain't it.
Now let me ask you what someone would carry normally that would be bread knife like? Maybe a cut down credit card? But for a quarter, I don't think I could bring myself to do something so petty when I already bring back my cart in stores that don't have this coin system.
Quarter? They take two bux here in Australia!
Ok, I'm not handing it off to someone walking in for that much.
I just like to ride the cart through the parkinglot and try to aim the cart into the cart corral and jump off last second. I made it into a game, im sure people look at me funny.
Depends, there’s this place I go to where I have to circle around all the cars to bring it to the front of the supermarket. They could put a corral somewhere back there but they don’t because they would lose some parking space. I never return the cart in this store.
I don't usually return it to the front of the store. But no matter where I'm parked in the lot, it never goes to a far-away corral, either the closest corral to the storefront, or better. I try to help out just a little.
i prop the wheels up so it doesn’t roll or take up any parking spaces, and leave it out there because i’ve actually worked at places like that and going outside for something is the best part of the shift….
if it’s raining or 80 degrees then i’ll put it in the cart corral….
the whole “it’s soooo rude and evil to not save money for corporations” is made up by: corporations
I put it in the corral always but sometimes I flip it over too. I want them to believe I returned the cart so hard it flipped over.