Do You Put Your Shopping Cart Away? - Tuesday!
Yo, what’s good? It’s Tuesday, and it’s nice and bright outside today – I could get used to this, man! So, simple question for you: Do you put your shopping cart away when you’re done with it? I’m talking about when you go grocery shopping, load up your car, do you just leave the cart by your car? Maybe shove it away a bit so it doesn’t look like it’s yours? Or do you actually walk it back to those little cart corrals?
I feel like you can learn a lot about a society or a neighborhood just by observing the shopping cart situation. Are most of the carts put back neatly, or are they scattered all around the parking lot? Sometimes, I know people think, ‘Hey, it’s someone else’s job to collect them. Someone’s paid to do that, so why would I take that away from them?’ And then others are like, ‘You know what? It’s two minutes – not even – of my time to go put it back where it belongs.’
I feel like whether or not someone is willing to put the shopping cart away says a lot. It shows they don’t see everything as someone else’s responsibility. It’s like, ‘Hey, this is my thing, I’ll take care of it.’ I was talking to someone today, and he was saying it’s human nature to be scumbags, to steal and accumulate more for yourself, to be greedy. That’s why it’s considered a sin, something we’re constantly trying to overcome: being less greedy and more helpful.
I’ve noticed that in smaller towns, you see fewer abandoned shopping carts. In bigger city areas, you see a lot more just lying around. Maybe because people in bigger cities are like, ‘Yeah, no one’s going to know it was me.’ You lose that human connection. Whereas in smaller places, it’s like everyone knows everyone else. It matters more if you’re making someone else’s job harder.
Just something I was thinking about because, in my opinion, I don’t think human beings are instinctively scumbags. I think we all want to be helpful, be nice, and be good guys. I think everyone thinks of themselves as a hero, not a villain. Very few people actually think they’re the villain of the story. Not that I think if you don’t put your shopping cart away, you’re automatically a villain, but I think small acts add up to define who you are.
So, out of curiosity though, what type of person are you? Do you put that shopping cart back, or do you leave it for someone else? Till the next one, peace!