How to Identify Human Garbage
Hint: The parking lot at your local grocery store is all you need to know...
There are plenty of indexes of douchebags in the wild. But the one that really is a strong indicator is whether you return your cart to the collection corral in the parking lot.
Hell, on my old personal blog I posted on this shit way back in 2015…
And what I wrote there is still true.
Yet I continue to see tons of shopping carts left willy-nilly all over the parking lot. One time when I wrote about this when I lived in Arizona I got a ton of comments, mainly things like “it is hot out” or “my kids are in the car and I can’t leave them”
Seriously, nowhere I have ever lived has the return of a cart to the corral has never taken more than about 30 seconds.
No, I think all the excuses are lame and really inappropriate.
Look, I get it, it is not a highlight of my day. But realize that if you are just going to hump the cart to the nearest curb rather than walking it to the collection area, then you are human garbage. YOu have shit for feet, and you should feel bad.
This can all be avoided by just returning the cart.
U know I love u Geoff, but this one was so first-world, I just had to say this about shopping carts and most of S. Asia... there is always someone there to bag and cart your stuff to the parking lot for ya... they PAY PEOPLE to stand there and wait for you to buy a bag of tomatoes, so carts are not needed. We also buy less. We obey the golden rule of shopping: if you can't hand carry it without aid, you have bought too much. Plus, the kids here would just steal the carts and go have some old-fashioned go-cart fun anyway, so that's why you won't see a single shopping cart, say, in the entire country of Nepal. But I do agree, just like Ghandi said you can judge a nation by how they treat animals, I'm sure all would agree that you can judge a nation by how well they return shopping carts to where they found them. Just makes sense.
Yes! Do this and be civilized. And don’t leave trash in the cart either!