1351
Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
432 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That goes for everything you can return but don't have to. You can throw your trash away after the movie, you don't have to leave it in the theatre.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not all return situations are equal either. There is a difficulty factor. I've returned carts every time in my life except once. I was about 50 car rows deep in a massive crowded lot and I realized there were no cart corrals at all. At the back of the massive lot and much, much closer to me was a bunch of carts. I pushed a few together and added mine. The difference in this scenario was not me.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    See this is an exception that proves the rule. The fact that there was no way for you to return the cart to a cart corral means that it was a noticeable and memorable event, a deviation from what should normally be the correct way of doing things. If you had been a person who'd never returned carts, this would have just been a day ending with the letter "y."

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent