When I go to the store and have to use a cart, I always return it to the cart corrals, or whatever the respective store calls the cart return areas. Always.
Several times, when doing so requires walking a short distance, some moron in the lot has yelled out, “what, do you work here or something?”
This royally pisses me off. Not merely because the asshole obviously wouldn’t dream of returning his cart. But far more so because he thinks this question demonstrates his rapier like wit.
My response is normally to ignore them. But the most recent dumbass repeated the question when I didn’t reply. This far exceeded the limits of my tolerance.
I smiled and said, it wasn’t funny the first time. You think repeating it somehow helps? But no, I don’t work here. Now go ahead and continue with your stupid point, if you must.
He got a little riled and said, why the fuck would you walk to the cart return when they have people they pay to get them?
I smiled again and replied, because my parents raised me to not be a dick.
There’s a dude on YouTube who’s channel is all about filming what people do when finished unloading their shopping cart. His hypothesis is that whether you take it to the cart return or not determines if you are a good person. I consider this a valid concept.
By a real creep of a man who haunted Harvard, Yale, and City University of New York Graduate Center
Yes I did not narrow it down
But the creepy man did electric shock experiments, and some people will shock themselves for they were bored if they were locked in a room for 15 minutes with no stimulation (masochism). Same creepy man also created experiments where people from Yale would (sadistically) shock other people from Yale.
Lastly (I am getting to my point) this creepy man also wrote about Familiar strangers aka social networks where people are strangers to each other, but they see one another at common locations like a bus stop.
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I earnestly believe men are stupid, and often out of boredom, low social skills, or sadistic glee will do asshole behaviours only to feel involved with the world.
It is not that these people do not know what is valuable from a social perspective, what is the valid decision, no they just need to make themselves feel available (notice the word play)
They are no different than the students at those colleges shocking themselves in order to not feel bored for they can not handle 15 minutes of stimulation lack. It is no different than Bill Murray shocking a stranger trying his best to flirt with a blonde 
- 14/09/2023 12:41:00 AM
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