After seeing this discussion being brought up again, I was going to genuinely ask you all to explain where that comes from. I’m from Brazil and I don’t recall ever shopping at a place with a large parking lot, which I believe might be part of the issue. I was thinking how come people value this act so much and before starting to write a post here I sent a message to a friend, then it hit me: it’s absurd.
I mean it. The feeling I had reading the comments wasn’t confusion or ignorance, it was the cognitive dissonance of looking at the world I live in and what people decided marks a person as decent. This is one of the moments I really have to stop and check if I’m not actually the crazy one. I really can’t think of something smaller to care about that someone else will defend so vehemently. Really, try me, I’m already broken again.
If you don’t return them for virtue, return them for fear.
I will report you to the cart narcs.
Man, I return my cart religiously, but I loathe that guy. Talk about self-appointed cop mentality.
He’s not changing anyone’s mind or behavior, he’s not actually making anyone’s job easier (I know, I used to corral carts at Safeway), he’s just decided to “annoy the annoying”, and thinks it makes him anything but also annoying. Not to mention he’s not doing this as some kind of unseen act of moral fulfillment, he’s literally doing it to make money. Karens are bad, whether you think they’re pestering the right person or not.
He’s not even a narc, because narcs report to someone with authority. He’s just taking it on himself.
/rant
Reported.