The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we alll recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. The return of the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart.
Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart present itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not retunrning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.
A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
The shopping cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
No one will punish you for not retunrning the shopping cart
Cart Narcs gonna getcha.
And vice versa. Somebody’s gonna get the Cart Narcs eventually. I understand what he’s trying to do, but when you get down to brass tacks, the guy is harrassing people. And filming them without consent, too.
Agent Sebastian, as he calls himself, doesn’t just point out the misplaced cart and slap a magnetic sticker on the offender’s car, oh no. In multiple instances he actively escalated the situation for no good reasons, except for the lulz, I guess, and in some videos, he even kept following the offenders. When he was visiting Australia, he even followed them to their fucking home!
Now, Sebastian was quoted as saying that the group’s mission is to insure public decency, but “decent” is not the word I would use to describe his behaviour.
Stop being lazy bones folks, cart narc will get you
I admire cart narc and believe he is doing God’s work, but I can’t help but cringe and close his videos because of the cringey, aggressive, and awkward reactions from the lazy bones.
Sameee. I was the cart pusher for a long time for my first job so his videos were cathartic at first, but once you get past the popular uploads it gets real cringy real fast.
It’s not uncommon for me to return carts OTHER PEOPLE left out. Just ones near me that are blocking parking spaces.
I have literally watched people push a cart to an empty parking space and ditch it. Wish I could say I stared them down but I was in my car.
I can’t even fathom the level of selfishness these people have.
I watched a family of three walk from the store to the literal last, furthest parking spot that they chose to park in (the lot had plenty of parking much closer) with their cart. They unloaded it into their Tesla, and then put it on the grass mound next to their spot, also next to the road, and drove away.
I get that some employees like being able to kill time getting the far, stray carts, but… Hooooo-ly shit I could smell the entitlement wafting off them when they walked by.
It is not uncommon to see people take carts all the way home
And this little piggie cried wee wee wee
I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.
A great guy -> How great a guy I was. A big problem -> How big a problem is it?
Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30011/how-big-of-a-problem-vs-how-big-a-problem
You might find this interesting.
Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.
The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.
See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html
Always remember to return your shopping cart after using it to move the bodies.
Returning carts steals jobs!
