If you don’t do this when you’re done shopping, you’re not a good person.

This is partially a joke, and partially not. No, it’s not the most significant thing in the world, but also, I think there’s something to this. Every time I think of or witness people just leaving their carts anywhere they please, it actually does blow my mind a bit. It’s incredibly selfish and lazy, and we’ve become immune to it, because it’s so commonplace, and everyone is in a hurry, or doesn’t want to talk to strangers, and our cities look like trash anyway. But when you think about it: it’s actually pretty crazy to just drop something because you’re finished with it, and “oh there’s someone who will clean up after me.”

Because of the work I do, I spend a lot of time in grocery store parking lots. Throughout covid, I witnessed over and over the folks who thought they were “being kind” and “compassionate” by wearing a mask—oftentimes the same folks who gave me the stink eye or worse for not wearing one (especially when they were still mandated)—just leave their carts haphazardly in the lot. I’m NOT saying there’s a correlation between mask-wearers and not putting your cart away. Nor am I saying there’s a correlation between non-mask-wearers and putting your cart away. But I am saying that you’re doing far more of a service to your fellow man by returning your cart to the cart corral than by wearing your stupid surgical mask. Stop virtue signaling and just do the “hard” thing—even when no one is looking. Don’t signal that you care; just care. Take the extra minute or two, and care.

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