Oh… I am going to destroy my lemmy credibility by chiming in on what I think is the absolutely most stupid conversation in the entire universe!

I know you all to be people of deep conscience and this is what I love about coming here. Lemmy is filled with people obsessed with meaningful issues… except for this one.

Maybe the leftists will join me? I don’t know, I think my perspective is simply boomer: who efffing cares.

On a beautiful Spring day, I will sometimes march my cart to the farthest end of the farthest parking lot knowing that I am giving the cart retriever a lovely stroll in the sun.

Cart retrievers are paid to do a job. I allow them to do it.

Oh, I have seen that obscenely smug little essay about how the easiest test of a person’s character is what they do with carts.

I have watched that Cart Narc guy and I always hope he gets caught and beaten by the person he has antagonized.

Oh… whatever. Judge me. Don’t judge me. It doesn’t matter.

The carts don’t matter. I probably should have read the comments here before commenting this but I was surprised to see it — because generally speaking, only topics that matter make it here and this one just doesn’t.

Why is this such a thing people are obsessed with? Like there's a billion things wrong with the world at every scale imaginable and your concern is the cart return guy has to walk around an extra 10 ft? There isn't even consensus amongst the people who have to do the cleanup that this is bad. Just move on.

I leave the carts that I find near the handicapped spots, as I know when my back goes out I really appreciate having a cart to lean on. I think it's common for a cart to be a sort of crutch.

My own carts I take back to the store unless I'm way at the end of the lot. If it's raining or something, always back to the store. I'm already wet, and I don't wanna make someone trudge out in the wet any longer than necessary.

This wojack shit is so tired.

It’s hard to believe that a reddit post about being able to tell if someone is a decent person based on whether or not they put a shopping cart away has stuck around as long as it has. It’s a pretty arbitrary metric.

Not only do I put my cart away, I will take a few extra seconds to organize a couple carts that have just been pushed in all willy nilly (my grocery store has 2 sizes of cart). Like if I can take 30 seconds out of my life to make some else's day just a little bit easier, I definitely will.