Shopping Cart Guilt (Odd Musings)
After I finish loading my car with groceries, I don't stow my shopping cart with the rest of the shopping carts. I usually push the cart a few feet away from my car, preferably near a curb. How much guilt should I feel from this? I feel none. Don't get me wrong, if there was a shopping cart corral within 8 or 9 car lengths, I would make the distance, but my grocery store only has corrals up by the entrance.
Here's some other stuff I don't feel guilty about:
- I don't always throw away my trash and stow my tray after eating at fast food restaurants.
- When I don't like a book at the bookstore, I don't always put the book back where I found it.
- If I try some clothes on at the store, and they don't fit, I don't always hang them back up.
Am I bad? Am I a ticking karma-bomb?
Posted by
dave
on Sunday, July 27, 2003 at 05:50 PM
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Comments
Posted by K on July 28, 2003 10:55 AM
0. I don't always stow the shopping cart either. And maybe I feel just a *teensy* bit guilty about it, since it could blow into the middle of a parking spot or worse, the aisle, and it would annoy people. But yeah, why can't they have more conveniently located corrals?
1. I throw my trash away at a fast food restaurant if and only if there is an easily-visible and -accessible trash can that says "thank you" on it. If they haven't gone to that much trouble, I conclude that they prefer me not to. They probably have to bus the table anyway.
2. Good for you! You'd probably put it back in the wrong place and then I wouldn't be able to find it. I prefer to let the professionals handle the reshelving.
3. Same here--only the people who work there know how to fold and hang their stuff just the way the way them and put them right where they want them to go. Just leave em in the dressing room. Along with a tip. Hahaha.
Posted by aj on July 28, 2003 03:13 PM
I stow the cart, even if it's across the lot. A raised-Catholic guilt complex, perhaps? Or growing up listening to my car-obsessed father rant about dings from rogue shopping carts on his fender? Generally, I ride 'em to the corral, and it's kind of fun. Especially if I can frighten people on the way.
I also throw away the trash and put away the clothes, even if the people are rude. I've just never considered not doing it... ?
My goody-two-shoes self is slinking off to a corner now.
Posted by Tom on July 29, 2003 07:16 PM
I always take the cart and find the nearest Saturn, even if it's farther than the cart corral, and test out the "dent resistant side panels" for them.
i always throw out the trash, unless there's a compelling reason not to do so.
I always leave the book in the bookstore somewhere if I decide not to buy it
I never even try to rehang clothes. Come to think of it, I don't remember the last time that I actually tried anything on....
Posted by davidh on July 31, 2003 12:55 PM
I always put my carts back. But then again, I don't recall ever shopping at a grocery store (after I got my car) that didn't have cart corrals all over the place. If the nearest one were over ten cars away from where I parked, I suspect I wouldn't corral it.
I throw my trash away at workaurants (places where I take the food to my table, get my own drinks, fetch my own ketchup, etc., other than buffets), but not at restaurants or buffets.
I am a stickler for book shelf organization. Whenever I visit Barnes & Noble I re-arrange their Star Trek section to put things back in their proper order (TNG books all together, DS9 books together, newest books or books from authors I really like facing out, etc.). Because of this minor OCD, I would have to put the book back in the correct spot. And possibly put the other books around it in their proper order (e.g. alphabetized by author) if they were messed up.
But I make only a token attempt to re-hang pants on hangers or re-fold non-hangered shirts, due to wacky ways they're folded.
davidh
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