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So, there are two types of people in this world....

ETA: This fits in under philosophy if anyone asks

I have worked innumerable s**t jobs, and I would never think of making someone's hard life worse by leaving a cart out. I'm that guy at the restaurant that stacks all the empty creamers, piles up the plates with the utensils and used napkins on top so the waitress or busboy doesn't have to - I see it as common courtesy, and there is nothing that runs against the grain of my character more than treating someone like a servant.

At the checkout at the grocery store I even place all my stuff on the conveyor in groups, like with like; if I have multiples of the same item, they all go together, frozen stuff all together, that kind of thing. I've found that if you can display conscientiousness to the people that work in a places where the pay is low and they deal with the public, it not only makes them feel better but they will then go out of their way to help you.

If I wouldn't like it done to me, I don't do it to others.

Thank you for a piece of lightness in what can be a frustrating forum.

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....I do this same sh!t.

The former because I'm being nice and the latter for appeasing my OCD. If the corral is nearby I will shove my cart into it, but if it isn't, I huck it into a closeby planter so it won't at least roll away. I will especially walk the distance to return my cart if there is a car pacing me for the parking space. They love that.

delightful!

I take mine home!

I just really hate it when they have almost no cart corrals in a grocery store parking lot. Or they're all near the front. I've even been to some that don't have any at all.

I always put mine where it is supposed to go. The one exception is when I was ill, had a newborn baby, and a heavy storm had just set in... that day I figured the bagboy would have an easier time of it than I would.

Sometimes I really feel like a square, pushing my cart back to the corral when almost every single other cart is just out there in the middle of nowhere.

Last edited by gwenevyn on 09 Dec 2007, 8:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

In most supermarkets here, you have to pay a £1 deposit to use a trolley, and you get it back when you return the cart.

I worked at a grocery store, and I remember how annoying it was to go around picking up carts.

So I make it a point to return all my carts.

I'm actually pretty big on doing courtesy things, when I am aware of them.

I'm going back to my nice, simple shopping carts. The religion/what would a woodchuck do?/presidential candidates I've never heard of threads are hurting my head.

*tosses other disinteresting threads on fire and pulls up a classy lawnchair*

I always return mine where it's supposed to go. I guess other people don't but I hadn't really thought of it before.