Cool, it’s my 100th post. Right on.
Today when out on the town, I stopped at the local grocery store and pulled into a spot at the back end of the lot. There were many cars around me where I parked and I happened to be close-by to two cart return areas (this will become more important in a minute).
As I maneuvered my way into the parking spot I chose, I was met with a reality that exists in all grocery store parking lots. The lazy shopper (well, signs of them anyway).
Specifically, the lazy shopper who is identified by what they left behind. Their shopping cart, left off to the side (of a parking spot) because they were too lazy to return it to the cart return area. (By the way, I am also assuming that if someone leaves their cart that they are lazy.)
I really don’t understand why people are lazy when it comes to returning carts to the cart return. Really, it is only a few steps away in any particular direction (because I assume there is a standard footage between parking spots and cart returns) for you to walk and kindly return your cart so the lovely young man/woman who works at the store can come and get them and bring them back to the store relatively efficiently for other shoppers. Really.
What was interesting about my particular parking spot was that it was not just one lazy shopper that occupied it before me and not even two, but three. There were three carts sitting at various angles in the spot I drove into.
So, I began to think about this actually.
Are we really that influenced by the actions of others? In that, when one person does something that may be controversial, others just follow suit as an act of empowerment.
Or did it just so happen that three shoppers at the back of the lot happened to be so busy in their life and needed to leave quickly that they didn’t have time to return their cart?
Or, did some clever person set them up in an attempt to get a crazy, wandering artist to comment on them in some way?
Who knows. All I do know is, that I returned my cart to the cart return when I was done, it’s just the right thing to do.
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