The Shopping Cart Test
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There are levels of this test which become more ambiguous in their discriminatory power. After pushing the cart to the stall with the rest of the returned carts, they are not often all stacked neatly inside one another. Do you push your cart in with the rest of the jumble haphazardly, or do you find a single cart in the jumble and stack your cart inside that one, while leaving the rest of the jumble, or do you stack the whole jumble neatly?
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Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.
Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.
I was only joking
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Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.
Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.
@Mik said in The Shopping Cart Test:
Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.
Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.
It's high-minded bullocks, sure, but I shared it because I think the idea is absolutely correct: douchebaggery outs itself when one is allowed to get away with it. Another (perhaps better) example is the "see how he/she treats the waiter" dating advice.
Far older: (paraphrasing)
When a place is busy and someone comes in thoughtlessly with some business or another, people will often treat him coldly, or become angry. But at such times, etiquette dictates that one should calm himself and deal with that person in a positive manner. To be just as thoughtless and to treat the person harshly is the way of middle-class lackeys.
I've remembered that because I know that last part is verbatim.
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I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Shopping Cart Test:
I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.
People who don't shopping-cart bobsled at every opportunity are to be treated with pity and suspicion.
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@Mik said in The Shopping Cart Test:
I find a huge chasm between how you treat people you deal with and shopping cart returns.
They're both actions in which you have a wide range of choice because doing the wrong thing isn't at all illegal. Therefore, paying attention to the choices people make in those settings is informative.
For hikers, it's packing out. There are many, many examples.
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If you want to kill some time, this guy (Cart Narcs) has some entertaining (real) videos of him enforcing cart returns:
@89th said in The Shopping Cart Test:
If you want to kill some time, this guy (Cart Narcs) has some entertaining (real) videos of him enforcing cart returns:
Probably the one thing that would get me to not return my cart is knowing there's some muther fucker with a camera that thinks he's gonna 'shame' me into doing so.
In any case, I think Aldis has already solved the issue. (the cart issue, not douchebaggery at large) A 25 cent deposit, and virtually all their carts get returned---not sprawled out all over the parking lot, rolling into peoples cars, etc. Great idea. Plus, if the weather sucks, I feel like leaving the cart out is simply paying for a service.
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You guys are nuts.
Seriously. Shopping carts? Girly shopping carts??I could see a serious discussion in regards to the big flat hand trucks that Costco has. Nothing more fun than running into things with one of those.
But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.
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You guys are nuts.
Seriously. Shopping carts? Girly shopping carts??I could see a serious discussion in regards to the big flat hand trucks that Costco has. Nothing more fun than running into things with one of those.
But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.
@Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:
But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.
And you need to ascertain the consequences of three months of lockdown. Seriously just what in the hell are we supposed to be doing on TNCR, solving the mind-body problem? Discovering tea brewing techniques that even Phibes could follow?
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It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
. . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?@Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:
It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
. . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?Phibes is your man for that; I'm more of a D&D person.
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@Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:
It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
. . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?Phibes is your man for that; I'm more of a D&D person.
@Aqua-Letifer
Naw, I was referencing a movie.
